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Word: adamses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marked lightly for Purging, not openly fought, unPurged-Indiana's Van Nuys, Missouri's Clark, Nevada's McCarran, Colorado's Adams, Connecticut's Lonergan.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIMARIES: It's a Bust | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Charles Adams Baker, Grand Haven, Michigan--Grand, Haven High School.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 243 Freshmen From Everywhere Win Scholarships | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

So many words have been written about the indifference which supposedly breathes in Harvard's "brilliant but cold" Georgian buildings, in the social life of its myriad inhabitants, and in the attitude of the University as a whole toward life and liberalism, that upperclassmen and graduates can only growl feebly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON BEING INDIFFERENT | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

The first volume covered the Civil War years, Adams' marriage and his wife's death, his editorship of the North American Review, his disgust with Reconstruction politics and his travels in the South Seas. The present volume covers the panic of 1893, the Spanish-American War, the Russo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Failure | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Adams, who had known 14 out of 25 presidents, complained, "I don't want to see any more." For him the White House was "ghastly with bloody and dreary associations"; Cleveland gratified him only by the "astounding denseness" of his intelligence, and as for Roosevelt, "if he tried me...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Failure | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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