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Word: sentimentality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...love, for more than 40 years Le Baron Briggs has walked among us and wist not that his face shone. . . ."It was the gentle Josiah Royce, who once said musingly: 'I should like some time to feel as good as Briggs really is, "and therein he voiced the sentiment of all men who have come to know Briggs. And what a host they are." Harvard men, here and there, read Mr. Everett's lament in the press, read also the statement of Dean Briggs-"I have been teaching long enough." Pursing their lips, they declared that the Dean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Shock | 3/9/1925 | See Source »

Suddenly, there was a touch of con cern in public sentiment. The Apothecary, the Laryngologist and the Physician issued a bulletin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vacation | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

...very real humility, if one could judge aright; not the pious sentiment assumed by nearly every politician on going into office, but the humility of a man who finds he is faced by "a tough proposition" to meet which he must draw on his best capabilities. Likewise he had confidence, the conviction that his mind could unravel the intricacies of any problem, given time and the facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man and the Mask | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...found myself confronted by a disloyal resistance, an obstinate will that would not bend to any argument, because it was deaf to reason. All trace of noble sentiment seemed to have vanished from the man. I had no friend at my side. I did not know what had become of the two gentlemen who had accompanied me. I did not have even my revolver. Outside the door stood Horthy's aide-de-camps and his other satellites ready to obey his orders . . . so I said bluntly: 'You stick to your opinion, and I to mine. Now, what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: King Business | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...earnest hope that the fullest measure of success may attend the efforts which are being put forth in this lofty enterprise, I am, dear Bishop, with sentiment of high regard, very sincerely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Letters | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

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