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Word: shallowest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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State Legislatures sometimes represent democracy at its shallowest, its most corrupt. (In Missouri, two years ago, a member offered to sell his vote for a $35 suit, with two pairs of pants.) But in wrestling with the great & small problems which the Constitution reserved to the States, the thousands of men & women under the capitol domes debate the issues that cut closest to U.S. homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lawmakers | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...little country (54,300 sq. mi., about the size of Wisconsin) is divided in three belts, paralleling the coast-a low, marshy, unnavigable shore line, where only the shallowest boats can go; a strip of savanna, sparsely wooded and creek-ribbed; a little-known, hill-&-mountain interior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Old Master | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

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