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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first place, daylight saving begins next week and it would prove amusing during an idle hour or so to figure out once more whether one should add that extra hour or subtract it and still catch his train. Having made the computation, he can record the results for use when he next wants to use such information and then if he ever really wants to be sure he can telephone the railroad station...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/27/1929 | See Source »

...from the French by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Le Motteux. In one volume.-Simon & Schuster ($3.50). On the banks of the Loire between Meung and Orleans there is a bubbling well by which "the master" sat, and a stone table on which he is said to have written. Add a weeping willow tree, and the late great Anatole France has made a Chinese sage of Rabelais-scholarly, ruminative, hardly Rabelaisian. France sought to unroll this innocuous picture before Argentine audiences (in 1909). But the Bishops of Buenos Aires, having heard of Rabelais' earthy humor, and having heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vagabond Monk | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...aliens often occupy a good deal of space. Nevertheless, there is so much talk about the invasion of Oxford by Americans and this is so frequently blamed on the Rhodes Trust, that I hope that you will pardon me for seeking to correct any possible misapprehensions. I may add that while in the abstract. Oxford sometimes discusses the same matter, I never found that the fact of being an American caused the slightest prejudice against an individual. This, naturally, may vary with persons and, more particularly, with the Colleges. Sincerely yours, Mason Hammond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Point Counter Point | 4/17/1929 | See Source »

...great deal for Harvard athletics. His appointment of Mr. Ryan as publicity manager is not the least important of his decisions. Yet to draw an analogy between the policy of the H. A. A. and that of President Lowell seems to exaggerate the importance of the former. To add that "Mr. Lowell cannot hope to keep Harvard out of the papers any more than the assistant football manager can hope to suppress the Harvard football news", appears the Harvard football news", appears to be, to say the least, a lack of taste. And to define good will "literally" in terms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vox Popull | 4/16/1929 | See Source »

...President that Army and Navy he-men well have dreaded the assignments, right honorable though they are. The chief duties were: 1) to stand grandly by when the President received new foreign envoys; 2) to pass tea and sandwiches smilingly at White House at-homes; 3) to add splendor to the President's official trips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Workingmen | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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