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Word: subs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proves a most unfortunate point. Complexes are only to be feared when they are repressed and the healthy airing of these matters is always to be encouraged. It is the people who never speak of so-and-so that probably have so-and-so working in their sub-conscious to a disgraceful extent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOLDIERS AND HUSBANDMEN | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...July, 1918, he crossed the ocean in a destroyer escorting a huge troop convoy. For two months he inspected all United States navy activities in the allied countries, as well as the Grand Fleet, the destroyer and sub-chaser forces, and the aviation and bombing stations. After visiting the allied front lines he returned to this country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WALSH, ROOSEVELT TO TALK AT UNION | 10/9/1928 | See Source »

...season's end, by conjectural count, seventeen nationally-known columnists will compose poems called "The Scrub". In fifteen of these the theme line will be rhymed with "sub" and "rub". Perhaps it is true that because only the imagination of a Second Team player can make tackles on Saturday afternoon, and that there is a broken heart for every play in the Stadium. One is more ready to believe, however, that this wistfulness is tempered with a homely and personal desire to whip the Yale Second Team. But whatever, the part of individual ambition in the struggle for positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SUB-SCRUB | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...scouring the country for a woman lawyer to put into his sub-Cabinet, President Harding heard about Mrs. Willebrandt in such glowing terms as only California's Senator Hiram Johnson knows how to use. President Harding feared she was "too young" (32 years) but appointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Worker Willebrandt | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...Members of the Presbyterian Church are presumed to possess minds and consciences of their own. Many of them will not agree with the Moderator as to the chief issues in this campaign. They may feel constrained to support Mr. Norman Thomas* as a protest against much that is sub-Christian in the platforms of both of the large parties. Or they may decide to vote for Governor Smith because they sincerely believe that prohibition does not really secure the maximum of temperance or for some other of his policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Poor Churchmanship | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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