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Word: sayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Would it not be a gracious thing for the President to do-a beautiful custom to originate-that the President resign a few weeks or months before the end of his term of office (say, on Christmas or New Year's day or even on Thanksgiving) so as to permit the Vice President to become President of the United States for the interim until January 20-when the newly-elected President would take office under Amendment XX to the Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

These doctors who say that doctors would not render good medical care if they were salaried (TIME, March 27) may speak for themselves, but there is one big professional group that would be shocked if its "patients" ever offered to pay individually for services. I refer to college professors (of which I am one) and other teachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...with what our 14-year-old daughter, Jane, was doing out until 3 o'clock this morning. If we want to communicate with Neville Chamberlain concerning the Munich disagreement, we have a cablegram on the way before we have had time to think what we should say...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...world in which we live. Contemporary art is likely, among teachers, to be regarded as a trouble some continuation of nineteenth century art, rather than a phenomenon which requires not only special knowledge but a rather unusual critical equipment for its comprehension or its appraisal. Few college graduates can say that they have given much time or much thought, in their fine arts courses, to Surrealism, the murals of Orozco, or the Federal Art Projects. Few scholars feel that these are fruitful subjects for scholarly investigation. In a publication which contains the results of scholarly research, I recently found...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMITH TEACHER HITS ART INSTRUCTION | 4/15/1939 | See Source »

...trees." On the road some die and some wander off. Then, once in California, they become undeceived. The third of a million new arrivals are herded, persecuted, and starved into working in the fruit and cotton fields for mere crusts of bread. As Ma and their sometime preacher Casy say, it is only their anger that keeps them on their feet. The ranch owners thereby store up for themselves the ripening grapes of wrath that seem bound to ferment and burst into a fury of action by the people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 4/15/1939 | See Source »

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