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Word: wept (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...didn't starve them," wept Mrs. Whittle. "They got a pound of meat a day. They are old, that's all. Just old and sick. I could nurse them back to health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Starved Scotties | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...broadcast to the world, the Pope bestowed a Latin benediction, an apostolic blessing, in which he said to his people: "I thank you for the sustaining strength of your prayers during my long illness." Then he returned to his apartments, accepted a restorative cordial from Dr. Milani and wept tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pope's Easter | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...college education and hasn't she made a success of herself?" Mr. Vallee assured her that a college education was an advantage in any profession. The result was that Heloise agreed to go back to Drake as a junior last autumn. At the station she broke down and wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Adventures of Heloise | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...Wept the trooper: "I didn't get a break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Second Degree for Third Degree | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...prodigious din while 25,000 Filipinos cheered on the Luneta, the city's spacious waterfront park. Welcomed by Manila's Archbishop Michael J. O'Doherty, Mayor Juan Posadas, and the pious Vice President of the Commonwealth, Sergio Osmeña, Papal Legate Dougherty wept happily. Although many U. S. Catholics consider him a self- possessed, even arrogant man, his voice choked when he presented to Archbishop O'Doherty the Pope's gift to the Congress, a gold ciborium. For, as all the Philippines well knew, the arrival of the Cardinal was the homecoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: On the Luneta | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

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