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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There should be no necessity for this; on the contrary, our instructors in the special fields should be able to rely upon a broad and well-ordered foundation of general training. We have long realized how difficult it is to give such a foundation and add to it the necessary special training for competence in particular fields without requiring more than one year of study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 4/28/1926 | See Source »

...player, except Dealer, touch a card during the deal and thereby cause a card to be faced, making a new deal compulsory, the side opposed to the offender may add 50 points to its honor score." (Brand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bridge Laws | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...truth of the matter might appear to lie in a synthesis of the two views. Prohibition may have helped--but not enough to justify its--function. To this probably neither would agree. The reformation prohibitional like the reformation protestant often befogs eyes otherwise very clear. Yet to add words to such a superfluity of verbiage as has already developed at Washington is certainly futile. Time and the taste of man eventually effect much. Reformers notwithstanding. One must at least complement the editors of the New for their courage and honesty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROS AND ANTIS | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...useful than in the Senate. What is sadly needed there is some one who really knows something about foreign relations, who has actually lived abroad and dealt with international problems. And if Mr. Houghton can talk as well on his feet as he does in a chair, he would add distinction and gayety to the Senate debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Praise | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...book should stimulate an interest in atmospheric phenomena among those who do not care to make a real study of the subject. Some beautiful half-tones, mostly of clouds, but also including a few of frost, fog, and lightning and an especially good one of a corona, certainly add to the interest of the book. The press-work and the binding, it is hardly necessary to add, are above reproach...

Author: By Professor ROBERT Dec. ward, | Title: THE WEATHER MAN AS A HUMAN | 4/10/1926 | See Source »

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