Word: utters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entertainment, molded him of refuse. The dying Satyrs tried in vain to teach their lore to this tribe of puny and hornless creatures. But the earth-crawlers spent their happy, ignorant days in pleasant dalliance-not only with fair fellow mortals, but with the immortals who often condescended. Thereupon utter confusion arose as to who was half-god, who three-quarters...
...subterranean segregated existence, predicates a punch of the button for mechanical medical service, punch of another for compound food tablets, another for a lecture, and yet another for a symphony. But gradually the music goes bad, the artificial air fouls, and the great god machine deteriorates quickly to utter non-function, vomiting its inhabitants up dark passages to death from unaccustomed contact with fellow creatures, or from the unexpurgated air of the earth's surface...
Please allow me to correct an untrue statement in the April 30 issue of TIME which read, "Ajax was just a great big, ambitious fellow like Jack Dempsey, given to extended mouthings." This you quoted as having been said by James Joseph Tunney; he did utter a similar statement while lecturing at Yale, but it happened to have been Jack Sharkey, not Dempsey, that Tunney said was given to extended mouthings and similar to Ajax...
Perhaps I am not one to criticize-being merely a 16-year-old Andover student, but even my young mind can see utter folly, and endeavor to help. I read TIME consistently, both while at home and at school...
Heredity, Environment. That Alfred Emanuel Smith rose from utter poverty and the shelter of a saloon is another current myth. His father, for whom he was named, was a New York trucker of whom little is known except that he worked hard and died young, when his son was 13. The mother, whose maiden name was Mulvehill and who also was born in New York, had seen to it that the boy went to a parochial school. At the father's death, he left school, having reached the eighth grade. Beside his mother he had a sister, two years...