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Word: ams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Experience may or may not prove that he war wise in his decision. Even the most enthusiastic advocate of a university education for an undergraduate, (and I think I am thus to be classified) could not fail to recognize that for certain individuals other institutions of higher education might be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Praises Freedom and Interchange of Views Made Possible by Atmosphere of Large University | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

"Nearly every morning about 9 o'clock Joe may be found [in the press room] eating doughnuts and drinking coffee out of a paper cup. Frequently he is accompanied by a young lady, his secretary, I am told. . . . The young lady departs and Joe produces a safety razor and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Napster | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Mary's mad and I am glad

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sixty Dirty Republikins | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Dr. Ravenel was a goodhearted, long-winded, affable Unionist who predicted that the Southerners would fight like jackasses and heroes. Southerners, said he, were an honor to the fortitude, but an insult to the intelligence, of the human race. Why, sir, they would become an example in history of much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rebel Romance | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

At 14 Cale Young Rice won a roller-skating championship. At 16 he captained an undefeated baseball team. Says he: "I am sure these small triumphs served to strengthen the muscles of my will for the long climb to poetic goals. . . ." Poet Rice's story of his climb up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet's Story | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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