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Word: well (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire military scheme of things, as far as the enlisted man is concerned is far from perfect, but who are there that will protest in behalf of the "Dog Robber?" He has no vote or is he other than future cannon fodder - the officers, well, that's the great argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 10, 1929 | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...where your way?" Without a moment's hesitation the Bishop, "Just the same as you describe." At the next roadhouse the old-timer was much chagrined when told that he had passed the bishop on the trail and had used unseemly language in the presence of the well-loved churchman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 10, 1929 | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...children-particularly the three oldest of five, my two daughters age 13 and 14 and son 11. It will be of invaluable assistance when they go to school and college in the States to have been able to keep in accurate touch with the affairs of their country as well as foreign news of importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 10, 1929 | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...your readiness to establish a life subscription rate (TIME, May 27, p. 4) well considered? "Sufficient interest" seems to be hardly sufficient reason. Life-expectation tables can have little bearing on the rate, as such subscriptions would be relatively few; nor has the life subscriber an assurance that TIME will not change its policy, cease publication, merge with another. There remains also the advertiser, whose best assurance of sustained reader-interest is the addition or renewal of annual (or possibly biennial or triennal) subscriptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 10, 1929 | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...trust that the exchange of ideas which will inevitably take place will convince the visitors that all true Americans desire to maintain the best of cordial relations between the two countries. Those who have ridiculed the alleged advantages of such contests from this point of view would do well to exclude from their lists the Oxford-Cambridge invasion. There is nothing quite like it in the athletic relations of the two countries. This is no Ryder Cup team bent only on victory...

Author: By Yale News, | Title: Welcome to the Englishmen | 6/8/1929 | See Source »

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