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Word: wept (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went on in the dance. . . . My feet became heavy and the place was no longer beautiful to me. Again the voice spoke much louder, 'Daughter, give me thine heart!' The music died away and I left the ballroom; and for three days and nights I prayed and wept and wrestled for my salvation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Camp Meeting | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

...wall of water appeared coming fast down a drainage trench. It roared past George, swept up Ottilie, smashed her against a curve in the culvert, carried her on to the screen at the culvert's end. Police found her body, every bone broken. Said George: "I've wept so much in two years I have no tears left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ottilie | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

When informed of the snub Massachusetts Medicine had given Dr. Truesdale as a result of her case, she wept great tears and cried: "Those cruel, old fogy New England doctors. . . . Oh, I love Dr. Truesdale. What can I do to help him? He was grand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chap. Ill, Art. I, Sec. 4. | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

...dozen individual directions. When the news of Bronson Cutting's death was brought to the Capitol, Bob La Follette burst into tears and would not go on the floor. In the Senate Chamber Norris bowed his head and covered his eyes with his hands, Borah openly wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Requiescat | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

That afternoon in Washington, Senators wept openly and a Congressional recess was declared. Same day Manhattan newspapers carried display advertising of a "new, faster Sky Chief," pictures of another TWAirliner which last week flew from Los Angeles to New York non-stop in 11 hr. 5 min., broke the transcontinental transport record by half an hour. First Douglas to crack up in the U. S., Sky Chief's misfortune seemed clearly due to weather, not construction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Ceiling Zero | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

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