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Word: uttered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Train's audience has the pleasure of being in the secret, of watching twelve good men and true, a political minded judge, and a mildly dishonest district attorney make utter fools of themselves by contrast with the actions of the upright young lawyer, Hugh Dillone who carries idealism to the verge of idiocy...

Author: By D. C. Backus ., | Title: Two of Harvard's Novelists | 4/10/1926 | See Source »

...Government, with its own bill up its sleeve, stood grimly by and watched the Cartelist Deputies struggle to such negligible effect that M. Lamoureux, reporter of the Cartel measure, repeatedly threatened to resign in utter disgust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Doubtful Victory | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

...Jacques Dumesnil, one of the chief sponsors of the Cartel bill as a whole, groaned aloud. Protesting at the top of his lungs he cried: "Imbeciles! Scelerats!! All you are capable of voting is that the largest class of electors shall pay nothing!" As the tumult mounted to utter bedlam, the President of the Chamber put on his hat and stalked from the room, thus officially declaring the Chamber not in session. The disgusted gentleman who stalked was none other than M. Herriot himself, the ostensible leader of the fractious Cartel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Doubtful Victory | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

...conceptions of education. Rules, regulations, and restrictions would make impossible such an innovation with such a purpose as is envisaged by the creation of the Harvard Student Vagabond. The student Vagabonds are with us but their excuse for existence is quite different. We gasp when we think of the utter hopelessness of attempting at Cornell to stimulate visiting by students to courses in which they were not regularly enrolled. The professor's attendance record might be upset! --The Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS-- | 2/20/1926 | See Source »

...attendants manipulated her throat muscles until she was able to utter intentional, intelligible sounds. Playfully, they used the same methods to make one of her pet dogs, a Great Dane, "speak" the word "mama" in asking for tidbits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Deaf Mute Ordination | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

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