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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before me the portraits of all the men who have been President of the United States. They number 29. I have counted them carefully. Yet on at least five occasions since election TIME has gravely and informatively told its readers that Herbert Hoover will be the 31st President. I add his portrait to the row-it only makes 30. Kindly explain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...China and Tibet is protected by natural barriers of desert and mountain and even at the present day portions of it are forbidden to foreigners. Even in those regions where Westerners have penetrated, the inhabitants are not unnaturally hostile to the strangers who come to disturb their ancestral monuments. Add to this the tremendous difficulties of language and the state of affairs that enabled one civilization to remain practically unknown while another reached a high stage of development from totally different sources becomes less inexplicable than first sight would seem to indicate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUT OF THE EAST | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...interested in your giving Harvard classes of the Directors of the Cambridge Historical Society and I might add James Leonard Paine was of the Harvard Class of '81, and concerning our two lady members Miss Carolyn H. Saunders is the daughter of a Harvard graduate and Mrs. Mary I. Gozzaldi the mother of two sons both graduating in 1914 and the grand-daughter of Samuel Batchelder, Esq., many of whose descendents are recorded in the Harvard Quin-quennial including Samuel Francis Batchelder, Class Secretary of the Class of 1893, formerly secretary of the Cambridge Historical Society, and known to many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Early History | 12/6/1928 | See Source »

Voting for the nominees will take place by mailed ballot. Petitions, signed by 20 eligible voters, to add additional names to the ballot may be taken to Claverly 53. The list of nominees will remain open for additional names until 6 o'clock on Monday when the ballots will be closed. As soon as it is possible to get them printed they will be mailed to members of the class of 1930 and must be marked and mailed back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOMINATIONS FOR 1930 CLASS OFFICERS MADE | 12/5/1928 | See Source »

...courses to be given at Harvard has so arranged matters that at present any one interested enough in Shakespeare to attend lectures about him has a wealth of opportunities. Several courses are devoted entirely to his works and many more discuss him in various aspects. Those who wish to add to their knowledge of the great dramatist and have never heard Professor Murray discuss Shakespeare should not fall to attend his lectures on that subject to be given today and Thursday at 10 o'clock in Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/4/1928 | See Source »

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