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Word: bearse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The editorial goes on to wish a left-handed success to the successors; but that is not the point. In their nostalgia, the retiring editors are unaware of the essential humour of their remarks. They have found the Jester to be a sorry creature; but they forget that a sorry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINDS CURRENT LAMPOON ISSUE NOT STARTLING | 2/11/1928 | See Source »

Braille is familiar, but too few people know its history, understand how blind people use it. In 1771, Valentine Haiiy, a Frenchman, saw a troupe of blind beggars performing tricks in the street. Touched by the spectacle, he determined to find some way to aid blind people, some way in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blind Deeds | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

The magazine contains articles, book reviews, short notes, and documents. If sufficient contributions are forthcoming, about half the space will be devoted to the history of New England. The Quarterly will be open to students, graduates, or any one who has something to contribute, which is of merit and bears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE PROFESSORS ESTABLISH NOVEL TYPE OF MAGAZINE | 2/2/1928 | See Source »

CUPS, WANDS AND SWORDS?Helen Simpson?Knopf ($2.50). The plot of this novel bears so exact a resemblance to the plot of Red Sky at Morning, most recent work of Author Margaret Kennedy, that, had the two books not been published almost simultaneously, there would have been an enormous hoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Charades | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

Harvard bears the brunt of the most startling accusation. After the author has celebrated the passing of the "rah rah boy" he states that out of the 2500 men at the University of Chicago only 40 joined the football squad. "At Harvard," he continues, "the situation is not so extreme...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IMPASSE | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

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