Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure TIME isn't prejudiced against Porto Rico. TIME is too open-minded to be biased against any nationality. "Viva Puerto Rico y los portoriquenos...
...France but his spurs and his glory were won on the other side of the Mediterranean, in French Morocco, As High Commissioner and Resident General almost continuously from 1912 to 1925, he pacified a robber rabble, waged reforms as well as war, organized a stable government, and laid the sure foundations of a great colonial and commercial future...
Reporter: Sure, I know who to call up. All right . . . Operator. Get me J. Chester Goofus, will you? You've got his number, I think. . . . Hello, I want Mr. Goofus. Mr. Goofus...
...Significance. With sure instinct for phenomena of "high society" Mrs. Wharton discerns a newish problem-the sad lot which falls to children of selfish modern parents, divorced. Whether it is a sadder lot than falls to children of selfish modern parents, undivorced, is not the question; and fortunately all question is subordinated to the acute analyses of scatter-brained complications of parents, quarrels among sophisticated children, well-bred war between their middle-aged bachelor guardian and the widow of his choice. Falling short of greatness, The Children is an eminently entertaining tragi-comedy of the times. Sinners will ignore, pharisees...
Whether because he wished to make sure that his friends among the contractors should continue to receive school-building contracts, or because he wished to provide the imbecile proportion of Chicago's population with a practical demonstration of his patriotic campaign cries, Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago last April arranged to have his school board oust William McAndrew, Superintendent of Schools, from office-after the Superintendent's term had expired. The charge was insubordination; the evidence in the form of certain history books in use at the public schools and alleged to contain "pro-British" propaganda. With...