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Word: scoffers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Published by famed Bernarr Macfadden (pink tabloid Graphic, lurid confessional magazines), the new daily - New York Daily Investment News - described itself as designed to "help the public understand Wall Street." When the Investment News was first announced (TIME, April 8), many a scoffer wondered how Publisher Macfadden, previously more interested in short skirts than in short selling, in swimming pools rather than in stock pools, could successfully turn to the Facts of Finance from the Facts of Life. Yet well was the transition made. There is no sex in the Investment News. There are no cosmographs. It is a tabloid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ten-cent Paper | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...engine would chuff to a neighboring village and return with food, mostly canned. Amid this interlude of perplexity, and while the empty tin cans were piling up on either side of the track, Trotsky amused himself by re-reading several works by Anatole France, famed and precious French scoffer. When, in obedience to fresh orders from Moscow, the Trotskys were booted into Turkey (TIME, Feb. 11), Comrade Trotsky sent the following note to Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Pasha: "I was brought here against my will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Exile Trotsky | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...printed word exercised its powers repeatedly and emphatically; over the radio was the message proclaimed; voices were even heard from the skies. Yet the cry of the scoffer persisted, and though but an undertone it would not be suppressed. The bandage slipped, said some; others of more astuteness detected clear proof of Machiavellian schemes involving the use of drugged coffee. But at last the faintest murmur of discord is doomed to disappear, and not from any outward violence but through inward conviction. For, as is announced in another part of to-day's CRIMSON, the not unheralded blind-fold test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PASS THE COUGH-DROPS | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

...those tears are precious, for they show that the grace of God and the tenderness of Jesus have at last wormed their way even into the hard, flint-like heart of a scorner and a scoffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: In Necaragua | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

Gutenberg. What is the Word of God worth? To a believer, it is beyond price. To a paynim or scoffer, it is valueless. To a collector of rare books, it may be worth as much as $218 a page. This was the price paid in Manhattan last week for eight pages from a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, the first book ever published. The pages, embracing the whole of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, was bought by the Phoenix Book Store. A complete Bible at this rate would cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trends | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

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