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Word: ve (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have never memorized anything, Adam Baxter's remarkable reciting may make you squirm with a guilty feeling of having missed much. We felt that way for a while, but then he fell back on a hymn we've sung almost every time we've been to church, and all was well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/26/1926 | See Source »

...FIRST LOOKING INTO TIME Some have traveled in the realms of gold, Even "gum-chewers' sheetlets" have we seen; From newspapers we've tried the news to glean Amid the chaff that makes the paper sold; Until at length TIME'S pages we behold. Succinct, inclusive, accurate and clean. Artist−you clarify the passing scene In crispy English, vigorous and bold! Poet−your magic fire illuminates Th' event with connotations of old time! Serene, you parry while some fool berates. Shaking accusing finger at your crime− Printing one item that he deprecates−Swearing he will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 22, 1926 | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...your privilege to start a boycott if you wish, but there has always been war and there always will be. ... I've been selling toys for 40 years, and as long as we can sell war toys we are going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Peace in the Nursery | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

...quiet to carry on their forms of worship. They demand protection against people who have no regard for decency or the laws of God or man. . . . And as to the Rotary clubs and the Kiwanis and Lions and Elks that you say are against this bill?well, I've spoken before all of 'em and I wouldn't consider their opinion on a matter of morals. ... Go from the pineries of Michigan to the cedar keys of Florida and from rocky Maine to San Francisco, and you'll find that wherever the Sabbath is loosest and freest the prisons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Sunday and Sabbath | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

...ve got some of these blue laws in Michigan. True, we have. But let any official try to enforce 'em. Why, the mere attempt would put any man out of office! ... If the ministers can't keep their people in church without this tyrannical legislation, it's high time for them to resign. . . . What this country needs is not less but more amusement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Sunday and Sabbath | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

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