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Word: backed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anyone who ever saw the Hoover home at Palo Alto or on S Street knows Mrs. Hoover's fondness for verandas and terraces. Back of the White House, not far from her husband's medicine-ball-ground, Mrs. Hoover has had laid out a flagstoned retreat among the trees, with rustic chairs against a shrubbery background. Nearby a special flowerbed has been turned, prepared and planted. Mrs. Hoover supervises the gardener but seldom trowels herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Open Doors | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29 had no trouble in vanquishing his opponent, but the visitors gave trouble in most of the other singles matches. Arthur Ingraham, Jr. '30, lost the first set of his match with Cleary of Tech, 5 to 7, and then came back after a hard struggle to take the next...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. I. T. NETMEN SUCCUMB TO HARVARD VOLLEYS | 5/9/1929 | See Source »

...Ware '30 and Short of Bowdoin provided the only fireworks of the afternoon, the visitor taking the second set, 7-9, but Ware came back to take the third set easily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD NETMEN DEFEAT BOWDOIN FOR EIGHTH WIN | 5/8/1929 | See Source »

...Hello Sucker! Pin back your ears and get a load of the next week's news: Sex, murder, sin, off and on will make you grab those straps on the 8:20 subway tighter and tighter. We aim to thrill, flatter, and admire, so cluster around with the money wide, high, and handsome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUICKBAND | 5/8/1929 | See Source »

...move is of the nature of an experiment and will be given a week's trial starting today. Instead of requiring all single scullers to be back by 6 o'clock as is now the case, the students in the Graduate Schools may take out shells until 6.30 o'clock, provided they are returned by 7 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADUATE STUDENTS GIVEN LONGER HOURS IN SINGLES | 5/7/1929 | See Source »

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