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Word: american (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...part, I hope the American public will finally realize that both "booze" and tobacco are dispensable luxuries, and that it would be better off without them. ARCHIBALD B. MOORE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: King Alcohol and the Weed. | 10/15/1919 | See Source »

...only comment which E. W. Mahan '16 would make on the University football team, which he watched yesterday afternoon, was that "the men looked heavy and there were plenty of them." Mahan has just returned from Roumania, where he has been serving on the American Relief Commission. For six months he has been engaged in distributing food to refugees throughout Roumania and Hungary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Men Look Heavy and There Are Plenty of Them" Says Mahan | 10/15/1919 | See Source »

...Krogness '21 placed in two events in the last day of the American Legion Athletic Carnival on Braves Field Saturday. In the running high jump he tied with W. Whalen of the Navy at a height of 5 feet 11 inches. As Krogness had a two-inch handicap he was given second prize. In the high hurdles the former 1921 captain won second place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KROGNESS WINS SECOND PLACES | 10/14/1919 | See Source »

Your writer displays not only a flagrant case of ignorance, but an entire lack of common sense in suggesting that, in as much as the American solider was handsomely cared for (?) during the war, our obligation to him ceases upon the signing of the peace terms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DRINKS ON US. | 10/14/1919 | See Source »

...business once too often; and the heckled, down-trodden proletariat will, with starting abruptness, proceed to clean house. The disembodied a spirit of the W. C. T. U. floating around in interstellar space, where there is no tobacco smoke, will have time to reflect on the fact that the American people are like a buzz-saw. One cannot "monkey" with them much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MEDDLING W. C. T. U. | 10/14/1919 | See Source »

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