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Word: writings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most tragic episodes . . . occurred when a ghost writer who was employed to write a farewell address for Hon. John White, Speaker of the House of Representatives in the 27th Congress . . . copied copiously from the farewell address delivered by Vice President Aaron Burr. . . . Mr. White, being unable to laugh at the comic position into which the ghost writer had placed him, was on the contrary so overcome with mortification and disgust that he committed suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Great Caesar's Ghost | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...their way back from the South Pole in March 1912, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his party perished of starvation and cold. To his wife, Kathleen, Explorer Scott wrote: "I must write a little letter for the boy if time can be found, to be read when he grows up. The inherited vice from my side of the family is indolence-above all he must guard, and you must guard him, against that. I had to force myself into being strenuous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wild Goose Chaser | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Directions: The following statements identify scenes of important recent developments affecting the map of Europe. On the answer sheet, opposite the number of each statement be low, write the number on the map which correctly locates the place or territory described...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Tallest tale in the Salop apocrypha is the story that he cannot read or write, has only recently learned to sign his name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Junk Man | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...turns it over in his plump hands, says: "Tick [thick], 18?." If it is thin, he says: "Tin, 8?." Some sixth sense supplies him with his shrewd literary judgments. Of one unfortunate author he is supposed to have said: "Dat guy? Dat guy? He couldn't even write a good remainder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Junk Man | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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