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Word: bearse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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He who runs may read, but he who rows is likely to be hard pressed for time to do so. His whole existence becomes merged in rowing his mood, conversation, and every thought are dominated by it. Hence, no doubt, the socalled "vacant" expression said to characterise the rowing man...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Bumping Races Require Fine Judgment on Part of Cox--Davison Scholar Writes of Oxford Crew Regattas | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

John Hardyng's chronicle, bound in the original calf with the original brass clasps of 1590, is the first issue of the first edition. The elaborate bookplate on the fly-leaf bears the escutcheon of "Philip Lord Hardwicke, Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Exhibit This Week Contains First Editions of Four Old Authors--Copy of Chapman's Homer on Display | 11/15/1927 | See Source »

ROARING BONES-Prince William of Sweden-Button ($2.50). Prince William of Sweden has amused himself with journeys into the damp green mysteries of Africa, with elephant hunting, exploring and literature. His former opus, Among Pygmies and Gorillas, was an account of a zoological probe into the centre of the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roaring Bones | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

That Mr. Andrew Volstead, a noted resident of a middle western city, has been forced to disconnect his telephone and substitute a private line whose number is known only to his trusted and less humorous friends, is by no means strange. During the day and night, according to the well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE | 11/12/1927 | See Source »

I believe that Mr. Roberts would bring victory and honor to the Republican party. If Mr. Butler is really in earnest in his quest for a good man to place on his party's ticket; a man whose record bears scrutiny, and whose accomplishments have been without parallel, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 7, 1927 | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

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