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Word: ars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected, trouble developed, and the young teacher lived up to expectations by soundly thrashing one of his pupils. Bub the pupil, resenting thus having been beaten at his own game, started suit against the teach ar. The teacher did not have any money to hire a lawyer. So he went into court and defended himself. He won again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Old School | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

Pressmen nodded sagely, though it is unlikely that many of them knew any more than Leverhulme's perplexed trustees about the knock out system. Knockout, in the ar got of the U. S. collegian, is a floating superlative used to qualify any object whose speed, efficiency or sex-appeal appalls rhetoric. In England the pressmen soon ascertained it is something else entirely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Knock-out | 10/12/1925 | See Source »

...rest of the diplomatic corps, officially oblivious to M. Karakhan, reported acceptances of their various governments of China's invi- tation, (TIME, July 20) to a Customs Conference, awaited the ar- rival of delegates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Disorder | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...task of due celebration, Pope Piux XI wrote: '"What heartfelt interest We feel . . . can be easily understood by anyone with even moderate knowledge of ecclesiastical history. . . . And may God grant that this commemoration help indeed, as is Our heartfelt wish, to bring about that those Oriental peoples who ar still held far off by schism may lay aside their prejudices and turn their hearts, and not in vain, towards communion of Faith with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Nicaea | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

...mirth of novices in fonology, but it makes them think and perhaps inquire and they see that ys is better than ice. Your sample yc would be Ike, as c is only the old round form of k. Practically all eminent skolars in English and editors of our dictionaries ar agreed as to the present need of simpler spelling. Many of the recognized leaders in education declare it the most important problem before teachers. I will gladly send free to any reader of TIME a brief statement of Reasons and Rules which wil be convincing to the fair minded. MELVIL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 4, 1925 | 5/4/1925 | See Source »

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