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Word: youre (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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In your excellent paper of Oct. 21! noted a letter from George L. Moore explaining about the word lagniappe (lanny-yap). I wish to men-.tion that our "oldtime" Negroes (and many whites also) used a word which meant exactly the same thing; the word was Koontra, and is supposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Sirs: We have been led to assume that your journal carries an account of the times with a careful and well considered valuation of events by cognizant persons. Your blatant characterization of Dr. William Wilmer as "incontestably the greatest eye surgeon the U. S. has ever had" in the issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Issue of Nov.111, p. 60. "If the hunted thing is in the middle of the picture it is killed.'5 From your description of the camera gun, the quoted statement may account for numerous alibis and limited bags. In wing shooting, the gun is never aimed directly at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

I have had brought to my notice an issue of your paper containing an interview with Dr. C. N. Greenough, in which he seems to think that I have, in my annual report, which was somewhat widely reported in the press, intimated that Harvard is about to start small university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unimportant? | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

Because I would not have you think that I share in the general impression, due to widespread newspaper stories, that Harvard is trying anything particularly important toward educational reform, in this her house plan, or that I have been engaged in any misrepresentation, as might be inferred, I ask the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unimportant? | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

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