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Word: beares (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this constant repetition is getting nerve-wrecking. If you must explain this not wholly unique hobby of Senator Heflin's, whenever you write his name, for God's sake sit down and compose fifty or more variations of the phrase ". . . who mortally (I can't bear to write it) . . ." and then schedule them for successive mentions of Heflin's name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 23, 1928 | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...Civil War began. With the first outbreak of hostilities Lee was offered command of the Federal forces about to invade the South. He refused, said he would never again bear arms except to defend Virginia. Therefore, he was soon commanding the Army of Northern Virginia, that "carried the rebellion on its bayonets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Unveiling | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

HENRY HUDSON-Llewelyn Powys-Harpers ($4). Two waters on the North American continent were grooved by the bow of Hudson's boat, and now bear his name to witness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: The Man in the Half-Moon | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...Department of Chemistry contemplates making the change, there will be available data that would seem to bear somewhat directly on the decision. Two years ago the Department of Bio-Chemical Sciences was created, with the object of removing evils then present in the system of pre-medical education. Although the achievements toward which the two systems point are essentially different, there is a similarity between the field that is not wholly superficial. The kinship between Physics and Chemistry is likewise great enough so that the influence of the sister science will probably be thrown into the scales. Dangerous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LATEST LEFT | 4/6/1928 | See Source »

...popular mind, students spend their days in a kind of lotus-eating existence devoted to the pleasures and dissipations of the campus, with an occasional hour or so devoted to study just before examinations. Without any facts or figures to prove the contrary students have had to bear the stigma in silence. Their justification has been attempted by the University of idaho, and despite the complications which the entertainments of a nearby city produce, no doubt the results of its tests would be of value in the defense of Harvard as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CAMPUS TIMETABLE | 4/4/1928 | See Source »

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