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Word: thinke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think it is a healthful thing not to have the country represented too predominately by either party, for it puts both on their mettle. On the whole, I think it is as easy to put through a well-thought-out program when the two major parties are more nearly equally represented in Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: All Right | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Fired from Manhattan's Hotel Astor for breaking dishes and from the Hotel McAlpin for daydreaming over an actress to whom he wrote "I think I love you," Bemelmans used his uncle's last letter of introduction to get a busboy job in the Hotel "Splendide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Problem Child | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Asked whether her "Daddy" would celebrate that night as would most other jubilant Crimson supporters Isabel replied, "I think he'll go right to bed; he's pretty tired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Very Proud" of Her "Daddy," Isabel Harlow Confesses "He's Pretty Tired" | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...curiosity test, in which a record of someone reading "Moby Dick" is played very softly over a loudspeaker, was unsuccessfully tried with some local talent the other day. "Children are so used to radios now that they didn't pay any attention," Dr. Dyk explained yesterday. "I think I'll try putting it in the closet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Psychologists Make Study of Personality Traits of Children | 11/17/1938 | See Source »

Socrates smiled, then asked for the cup. "I do not think I should gain anything by drinking the poison a little later," he said. "I should be sparing and saving a life which is already gone; I could only laugh at myself for this." There was silence deep as death as the jailor brought in the poison. He could make no libation to the gods, Socrates learned; there was only just "enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/16/1938 | See Source »

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