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Word: wherefores (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...policies caused him to apply for an injunction restraining Inveresk Ltd. from interfering with his conduct of their paper. Since the editor had a contract, the only thing to do was buy him off. He held out last week for ?12,000-nearly $60,000-and finally got it. Wherefor the smug airs, the sherry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Agin, Agin, Agin | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...conception of the so-called "Harvard manner" troubles us even more. Why, we query, should a man act like a gentleman in college? Or, for that matter, why shouldn't he? A person's polish, blithely spattered upon a well-thumbed pedigree, will hardly serve him in peddling bonds. Wherefor then, all this poifect gent stuff? Is it, too, an adaptation to environment? Perhaps, but since the wholesome prostitution of "good names" has become a disturbing realization to most of the Beacon Street element there must be something beneath the surface. The Harvard man must actually have a manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN "MOIST," ACCORDING TO ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF YALE RECORD | 11/18/1927 | See Source »

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