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Word: sayings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their bi-weekly conferences with the Press, Presidents often say many a confidential thing designed only for the discreet ears of working newsmen. Last week President Hoover tightened the admission to these conferences, caused all newsmen to sign pledges that they were not connected with any brokerage tipping service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...interview. He reminded the Colonel of the good old days when he liked to pose and asked for just one picture of the Hero's wife, still out of sight below. But the Hero, who, according to Mr. Dolan,* smiled his "freakish, vaudeville smile," had "nothing to say...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Put put | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Hero: Nothing to say...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Put put | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...say, let Sargent and the Warepoch he speaks for be damned or be praised in the future. You won't better matters by expunging records. They may signify something that you haven't thought of. Yours sincerely, John Jay Chapman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Of Historical Value | 6/15/1929 | See Source »

...four years he is subjected to a grind which little by little disheartens him and he never gets his head above water to enjoy the broader contacts College should give him. Let him approach ever so near the Dean's List--three "B's" and a "C" plus, say, at finals. His bourgeois friend whose ease and mental tranquility has allowed him to make four "B" minuses gets a fat scholarship, but he gets as little consideration from the scholarship committee as does the man on probation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE AWARDING OF SCHOLARSHIPS | 6/13/1929 | See Source »

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