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Word: sayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miller who is shocked at the beautiful figure of a "Zig" comes from a mind morally diseased. As soon as I read the letter, I fished up the number (Dec. 17) and studied the figure more closely and with greater pleasure. In fact, I am not ashamed to say that I think so much of the beauty of the perfect human form that I never take a bath without a long and admiring look at my own form in its perfect proportions. Not one part of me. But all of me. I would rather-far rather-look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...charge of the organization of the leave areas for the "Y," where over 400,000 men received a seven-day leave, and in justice to the fine body of over 1,200 American men and women who served in my department, I am compelled to say to Mr. Scott that his statement that "The Y. M. C. A. did not practice giving away anything"' is not the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

When asked by a CRIMSON reporter to comment on the news that he had received a cabinet appointment, Mr. Adams replied, "I have nothing to say," and declined either to deny or confirm the report. In accordance with his usual policy, Mr. Hoover also refused to make any statement concerning the appointment, although an announcement was made by Washington authorities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: C. F. ADAMS IS APPOINTED SECRETARY OF NAVY IN NEW HOOVER ADMINISTRATION | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

...object of the 'House' plan is not scholastic in the educational sense, it is not athletic, it is social. That is to say, the aim is to create a society. What is a society? The dictionary tells us 'it is composed of persons united by the common bond of neighborhood and intercourse and recognizing one another as associates, friends, and acquaintances.' The one and only object of the 'House' plan is to create societies exactly under this definition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coolidge Explains House Plan to Graduates in Speech In St. Louis---Emphasizes Social Benefits to be Derived | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

...there is one complaint above all others from which the whole of American life most acutely suffers, it is timidity--should one say, the entire absence?--of minority opinion. Yet so needful is minority opinion to the health of democratic institutions that it should be encouraged at all costs. Where everybody thinks alike, there, be sure, is mental stagnation and spiritual death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/19/1929 | See Source »

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