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Word: sopped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Seashore's sop to Bardolaters: "It should be remembered that older writers had a much smaller English language to draw from, and that we know nothing about the number of additional words which they could have used if necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Better them Shakespeare? | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...Lancaster, but Neville Chamberlain and Captain Margesson found a seat for this faithful Party hack in the Postmaster Generalship, where he cannot be heckled as farmers and consumers have heckled him. Postmaster General Major George Clement Tryon was made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster with the additional sop of a baronage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Cabinet Shuffle | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

This week Colonial Secretary MacDonald will be called upon to answer that question more fully. It was suspected that unreported Arab dissatisfaction was responsible for this sop to the Arabs, without whose sympathy a successful war in the East would be hard to wage. Meanwhile, Government whips got busy to line up the Conservatives for the important vote. Last time the House of Commons counted votes on Palestine, the Government had a majority of only 88, as compared to the usual Conservative margin of more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: After Six Months | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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