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Word: wouldn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME is great. I sozzle in it weekly. Wouldn't miss it, but do miss something in it. Namely, Architecture as a major heading. Architecture, broadly considered, embraces all the Fine and most of the Technical Arts. It has made our cities, towns and villages and has beautified and inspired life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...apparent reason Mr. George Kelly began to make sense through the mouths of a competent, but sorely taxed cast. The final impression was more than ordinarily disturbing. Here was a play, like it or not, and in its worst moments it brought to mind the old sentiment, "I wouldn't like it even if it was good...

Author: By H. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/21/1928 | See Source »

...moment in the fable of success in which he had demonstrated to all the world how far he had come from his job as chore boy. Success did not mean relaxation. Asked when he will retire, he jerks his thumb toward the ground "When I'm down there. . . . Wouldn't last long if I sat down and stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Anniversary | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

Woman. Many a politician smiled sympathetically, pityingly, upon Vice Chairman Emily Newell Blair of the Democratic National Committee, who betrayed her ignorance of the ineffable mysteries of national politics by declaring: "If I were writing the Democratic platform for 1928 there wouldn't be any. I would issue a short statement, brief and to the point, that platforms are out of style; either they mean something and are a target or they mean nothing and are a camouflage; in the one case dangerous and in the other case dishonest. Besides, they're boresome; they take up time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Candidates Row | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...Wouldn't it be a pity if the long-suffering foreigner, having been shouldered with the responsibility for the full list of China's domestic disturbances, should now be blamed in addition for the well known peculiarities of the Chinese language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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