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Word: soberest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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That meeting was the cold-soberest convention the Guild had ever held. Through five sweltering, grueling days, from early morning till after the bars closed, wilted, red-eyed delegates hustled from smoke-filled caucus rooms to committee meetings, to corridor corners, to tense, bitter floor debate in the grand ballroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newspapermen's Fight | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

Cable address of Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare is WHISKERS, LONDON. Britons call the Ministry "MEW." This light-hearted self-mockery is unwarranted. For the Ministry, housed in the gloomy, awesome London School of Economics, is one of the soberest, most intricate, least whiskery bureaus in the Government. It may be the decisive factor if Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Starve Thy Enemy | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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