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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just this, Harvard men all over the world are carrying on a tradition of helpfulness in the social problems of the communities they live in. We in Harvard now are letting this tradition go by the board. The facts are that men of College age are the ones on whom the responsibility for giving leadership to the boys of the community falls. It is this responsibility that Harvard undergraduates will not face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charity's Returns | 10/25/1928 | See Source »

...colored ponies trotted up the avenue with a command for Orlando to dine; Lady Palmerston and Mrs. Gladstone left cards, but bored Orlando withdrew to the woods with her lover. True, she solemnly married him and bore her first child?but such was the irresistible convention of the crinoline age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Breeches to Crinolines | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Like the lives of many religious leaders -Moses, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Aimee Kennedy Semple McPherson, Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy-her biography is spotted with lacunae. She deliberately made them. She would never tell her age (it was about 87), nor her girlish life, nor permit her elderly photograph be taken, nor tell the source or spending of the millions of dollars given her. Luxuriously she spent and lived. The First Church of Christ Scientist which she founded in Manhattan a generation ago, when Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy was still her friend, cost $1,250,000. Next door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Death of Stetson | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Vivid panorama of a violent age, when Fox tore himself from the dicing tables to champion in Parliament the American Colonies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mention- Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...characteristic enthusiasm permeates a naïve, vigorous, deliciously serious diary started at the age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mention- Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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