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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Breathless, he explained, as with trembling hands he unwrapped, that at last, at long last-crash! At his feet lay the arduously wrought statuette of Sculptor Taylor's old age, in fragments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cyclorama | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...Vanity Fair, David Gray, novelist-protege of Editor Frank Crowninshield, Anglophile, told universities in general and philanthropists in particular that to hasten "America's intellectual Golden Age," what lacks is the Oxonian tinge. He said: "All Souls college at Oxford . . . is an exclusive club of intellectual swells, picked graduates of other colleges who live, at the expense of the foundation, in a kind of divine idleness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cunning Gauss | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

Asked to comment on some of the men well known in baseball, he said, "Cobb and Speaker are going to have another big year. However, it is well to remember that there is an age limit to this game. Babe Ruth is in good condition this year, and should continue to be our biggest drawing card, and to hit his regular quota of home runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miller Huggins, Microscopic Manager of the New York Americans, Finds College Men Poor Big League Material | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...lecture by denying the often alleged stability of our government merely because it has existed 160 years, declaring that "no form of government can be assured of permanency", for there must be a "constant renewing of its power" to adapt it to the swiftly changing conditions of our modern age...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hibben Stresses Obligations of Nations and Individuals | 4/29/1927 | See Source »

...marriage is to avoid promiscuity. Nothing whatever is said about procreation, therefore it certainly cannot be said to be the sole purpose of marriage. In fact, this conclusion is tacitly agreed upon by all sects of the Church when they bless marriages between people who are beyond the reproductive age...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Birth Control Must Accompany Civilization's Further Advance | 4/27/1927 | See Source »

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