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Word: temperedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvey Gushing (p. 48, TIME, May 10) unquestionably is a "Brain Surgeon." He may be "quick-tempered," though you would hardly think it to see him entertaining his classmates at tea in his Whitney Avenue home, but he is not "Harvard's."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 14, 1937 | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

Since short-tempered Senate President Arturo Illas Hourritinier caned his job-seeking old uncle's head and then tried to punish the Havana press for reporting the incident, an irate band of his colleagues have been staying away from the Senate Chamber to forestall a quorum, force him to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Taxes & Scare | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

Last February, The Nation antagonized its angel by greeting Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court Plan with tempered approval as "a brilliant tour de force. . . . It is the task of progressives to support the measure-with an open-eyed awareness of its shortcomings."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Angel Steps Out | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

"No, sir! Every girl--colleen, pardon me -- is a type; if she's rude, she is a hoyden; if lewd, a minx; if lovely, a nymph; if lovely and black-eyed, a houri (that comes from an Arabian word, he parenthesized with a smack of his lips). Now, you may...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/1/1937 | See Source »

Ministerium, The oldest Lutheran body in the U. S., the Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and Adjacent States (213,065 members), opened its 195th convention in Philadelphia, then moved to Atlantic City. The Ministerium's pleasure in learning that its income had risen for the first time in six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gatherings for God | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

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