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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Certain amorous adumbrations add a behavioristic bond to McDougall's kinship with Benvenuto. And in a literary way, they twin across the centuries. Their kind of writing is vivid, newsy, racy without stint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Benvenuto Redivivus | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

...brief the truth is this: seniors, allowed freedom by the tutorial system, are refusing to attend uninteresting lectures or those which do not add to their knowledge of their field or their better appreciation of life and learning in general. So many a gentleman long sure of an audience now remarks empty seats and wonders if this child, the tutorial system, is to fatten upon his heritage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HALF A LEAGUE ONWARD | 3/27/1926 | See Source »

...such a crisis should be stamped with a seriousness of purpose from the beginning. Nature seems to have fostered this Puritanical seriousness with the bleak and dismal plains which cover much of the state, with nothing in the way of trees, hills or lakes from horizon to horizon to add frills to a severely simple landscape. At any rate, Kansas is a state where the spirit of blue laws is strong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUNFLOWER SIMPLICITY | 3/25/1926 | See Source »

...Eine Selbstverstandlichkeit." To begin, the von Beneckendorffs have been for some 600 years among the most respected of the lesser Prussian nobility. By chance, the President's great-grandfather received from his great-uncle (a von Hindenburg) certain landed estates, willed him only on condition that he add the comparatively "nouveau" title of "von Hindenburg" to his own illustrious one. His son, a Prussian officer as a matter of course, married the daughter of an army surgeon. To them was born Paul, a deep-chested healthy infant, who inhaled the atmosphere of Prussian militarism with his first breath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hindenburg | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...What amendment would 86 citizens of Allegheny County like to add to the U. S. Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Mar. 22, 1926 | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

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