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Word: abodeely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The previous results of attempts to control women do not promise much success to this project. The traditional last word of Xantippe and the saline perversity of the wife of Lot show that restrictions are not particularly adaptable to them. The objection of the associate editor of the college newspaper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAUGHTERS OF XANTIPPE | 3/16/1929 | See Source »

The University seismograph, now located in the University Museum, will change its abode to the southern states this summer, according to an announcement made last night by L. D. Leet, Observer of the Harvard Station. The seismograph is to be employed in searching for rich oil fields in the water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEISMOGRAPH GIVEN LEAVE TO SEARCH FOR OIL FORTUNES | 2/6/1929 | See Source »

Hands cupped, legs working in piston fashion, a pair of girl twins, whose age totals 28, propelled their monotonous way through the murky waters of lower New York Bay last week. At Battery Park, abode of the homeless, mecca of excursionists, they were fished out, their wet hands wrung, their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Twin Swims | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

"If there was ever a man," said Robert Latham Owen, outstanding Democratic "bolter" of last week (see p. 11), "fitted to be an advance agent of prosperity, it is Herbert Hoover." The "advance agent" made the first formal public speech of his Nomineehood last week, at San Francisco's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Advance Agent | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

Thinly disguised under the synonym Ottercove, Lord Newspaper-Magnate Beaverbrook appears in Gerhardi's new book, avowedly "pure and unmixed, except for the obvious extravaganza." But Beaver-brook's life has been so rich in extravaganza that the fictitious is not always obvious. Ottercove rides in a Winged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All Held Hands | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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