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Word: ular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...popular government: "That government whose policy is determined by the ultimate judgment of the people will permanently survive. The government whose actions are determined by the passing phases of pop- ular opinion, as distinguished from ultimate opinion, will perish. The Constitution of the United States establishes the rule of the people, as distinguished from the rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Words | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

...sense of construction. The trouble with it is that the author succeeds in making that kind of thing seem so completely unimportant that one gets wondering why the book should have been written at all. Still, as a sincere if at times some-what tedious portrayal of a partic-ular angle of hobohemia, it is recommended to those who still con-sider Greenwich Village a cross between the court of Nero and the Mermaid Tavern. LANTY HANLON−Patrick MacGill−Harper ($1.90). A broth of a boy was Lanty Hanlon, G. H., from the time when he was christened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good Books: Jun. 18, 1923 | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

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