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Word: seeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement that Governor Ritchie will speak in Boston during the week has evidently relegated Orthodoxy to a minor position in favor of the more pertinent question of Prohibition. For the good of the people, perhaps, the pernicious influence of the English scholar has been allowed to seep in to keep their attention occupied while the Law and Order brigade amuses itself by presenting a cold shoulder to the Maryland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CITY OF MYSTERY | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Once again country-wide debate on Prohibition moved to new ground last week when the subject upcropped without warning before the twenty-first conference of Governors assembled at New London, Conn. (seep. 11). Heretofore these political meetings had studiously avoided this political subject. When governors did debate it last week, their sentiment was preponderantly Dry, as was to be expected among politicians discussing the law of the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: More New Ground | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...news. Time and again the authorities have shown themselves ignorant of publicity values, lax in their handling, and reckless of the consequences of inaccuracy and misrepresentation which are traceable directly to their sluggishness. When there is news to be given out officially, none is given; it is permitted to seep out through any one of many channels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "I KNOW A SECRET" | 2/28/1929 | See Source »

...South China Nationalist Government at Nanking has recently suffered the loss of 3,000 troops killed or wounded in the course of Japanese intervention in Shantung (seep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Question of Right | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Shrewd, he delayed his vacation beyond the usual date, allowing an impression to seep out that he would not leave Sofia this summer. Then, without warning, the royal motor car purred discreetly from palace to railway station. On the platform stood only one official: Premier André Liaptchev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Holiday | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

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