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Word: taling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ejaculation which "Collar and Cuffs" could be depended on to utter in almost any circumstances was "Really!" in a particularly flat drawl. Nevertheless he, the Duke of Clarence, was definitely the favorite child of his proud mother, later Queen Alexandra. Possibly apocryphal but thoroughly typical is the following tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: May Queen | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...autocoprophagous baboons, who make the filth they feed on. . . ." Says our own Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain): "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." And from the famed nursery tale, Gulliver's Travels, by Dean Jonathan Swift: "I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives [mankind] to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jobation | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...people of their adopted place of study are delegates such as those who come to Harvard today. The terms of life are experiences and the vehicles of expression are words. Properly to transfer the one through the other the translator must first live the life; then tell the tale. The two functions should be of the same individual if happy results are to be obtained. And so, as fosterers of a true impression of America by her system of education, the strangers are to be greeted warmly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BETTER AMBASSADORS | 2/13/1930 | See Source »

...elementary textbook by the Alvord Professor of Natural Religion. Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, endowments for economic research were unnecessary; but in the second decade of the twentieth century it was evident that the Department of Economics was literally in the position of the servant expected to produce his tale of bricks without any substantial supply of straw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Economic Research at Harvard Recently Aided by $150,000 Grant from the Rockefeller Foundation | 1/28/1930 | See Source »

STRICTLY DISHONORABLE-Delicious sex fairy tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Jan. 27, 1930 | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

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