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Word: sweete (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representative Thaddeus Campbell Sweet of New York telephoned Bolling Field one afternoon last week and asked Lieutenant Bushrod Hoppin, U. S. A., to fly him to Oswego, N. Y., where he was to make a speech. Such calls from Congressmen are encouraged by the War and Navy Departments. Lieut. Hoppin did not get the Representative's name very clearly but proceeded at once with preparations. They took off after breakfast next morning, in a new Army observation plane. By late-luncheon time, the plane was a wreck and Representative Sweet was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of Sweet | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

William Ellery Sweet, onetime (1923-24) governor of Colorado, and his son, Channing Fullerton Sweet, purchased the 15,307-acre Jack Woods cattle ranch, upon which they expect to breed a larger number of purebred cattle than does any other ranch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 23, 1928 | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...same old sorrows and self pity are fast taking new expression in "sweet Blues comin' from a black man's soul-achin' hearted Blues, all alone Blues, baby-won't-you-please-come-home Blues, chain-gang Blues, mo' Blues than angels in Heaven can sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Joree-jaw | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...ruffled brow and calmed the palpitating hand. For the Reading Period would come in May, and in May Radcliffe would come again to Harvard. All was well; though reading assignment and thesis pluck at the heart of the courageous, yet even when the trial was hottest they would gain sweet respite. The Brattle Hall stage would blossom with lovely faces and form, and the Dramatic Club would ward off disaster even at that faltering midpoint of the Reading Period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUEZZIN | 4/6/1928 | See Source »

...contend a "family tree" proves nothing for a man unless he can garner from it the "sweet fruit of reason" and the nectar of tolerance. May I point out that even an American family tree must have a "sap." For which the K K. K. should be thankful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 2, 1928 | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

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