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Word: sayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most refreshing to find in an ordinary or should I say extraordinary, newsmagazine such evidence of literary talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...certainly got a laugh when you called the new German Ambassador to Washington a "fair" tennis player (TIME, Nov. 14). If you mean a fellow who does not say "OUT" every time a ball lands within five feet of the baseline, a fellow who remembers the score when he is losing, a fellow who, in other words is "on the level," that is O. K. But maybe you just meant to say " a pretty rotten tennis player." This is something different. I got a laugh because I don't think you knew which one you meant. Which is this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...minister was coaching an amateur play to be given at one of the church functions. Upon being shot, the hero of the play, according to the written lines, was to say: "My God. I'm shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...say I WAS going to scold, but I changed my mind when I received this week's issue. In today's issue of The Boston Traveler I read what is almost a duplicate of your story about Sen. Curtis of Kansas and decided that TIME isn't killing so much of it after all. I'll say TIME is "going some" when it prints its stories ahead of the newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...read about Janitor Bonney and I read what he said about drinking in colleges [TIME, Nov. 14, LETTERS] and it made me think. I too went to college (what college I had better not say), I too knew a janitor who "waddled" through the dormitories. But he could not have been much like Janitor Bonney. Michael Bonney must be the best college janitor in the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

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