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Word: temperedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The same mistake that Germany made when she executed Edith Cavell, a British magistrate in Bombay made last week. Outside a Bombay store a small, impertinent child shrilly shouted to purchasers to buy nothing but Indian goods. Brandishing their long lathis, policemen swooped down, arrested the child as a picketer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Krishna Kant | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

The abilities by which he did this were not merely those for which Lord Haldane named him the "father of modern jurisprudence." In him, legal acumen and breadth of vision were tempered by a noble humanity. The narrow formalism of law, so often hostile to this quality, seems never to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUSTICE OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES | 1/13/1932 | See Source »

There will be many Christmas messages this year expressed by word of mouth, in letters, through the papers and editorials. Some will be cheery, some calmly happy, some bitter, but all tempered by a slow thoughtfulness. Gold standards have been dropped, statesmen have grown suddenly old, banks have failed, nations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

Nobody was more pleased than Benjamin Lloyd Belt, oldtime, Virginia-born tobaccoman. In the business 40-odd years, he has been with Lorillard since it became independent in 1911, a result of American Tobacco Co.'s dissolution as a trust. In 1925 Lorillard got a thorough shaking up and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cigarets, Cigars | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

Lest Harvard followers support the Crimson too optimistically because of their unbeaten record, it should be remembered that Brown too was a strong and undefeated team until the Crusaders buried the Bruins under a 32 to 0 avalanche two weeks ago. True, Holy Cross had no easy time beating Duquesne...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLY CROSS GAME ALMOST SOLD OUT | 11/12/1931 | See Source »

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