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Word: bearse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some there are who even seek to win applause by study. Perhaps because of physical debility or fear of the more active competitions on the pig fields, they take refuge in their books, often memorizing entire volumes for the sake of the Prophezzors' praise. If that praise rings loud enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Persian University Letter No. 4 | 5/12/1925 | See Source »

He sings the changes of the cycle in the life of a woman-one stony, first, as the reluctant earth, fearing the fire that moves, the force that brings lilacs out of a dead stalk whose root, fed by death, feeds death again in the carrion ground. Her career is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Carrion Ground | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

Back to his editorial desk went Samuel Sidney McClure. He had not sat there since 1912, when he turned over the magazine that bears his name to Publisher Frederick L. Collins. The 13 years that had passed had been years of trouble for McClure's, aching years of middle age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost Childhood | 5/4/1925 | See Source »

Harvard continually proselytes, declared a prominent official of the University recently, not to recruit undergraduates, but to obtain the finest possible faculty material. The announcement of the illustrious additions to next year's teaching staff bears out the truth of this statement and gives prominence to President Lowell's belief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT | 5/1/1925 | See Source »

The truth is that two contradictory forces are now at work in stocks, and at present just about offset each other. The bears argue, and with reason, that the recent price advance in shares discounted more than amply any likely increase in the earning power of most U. S. listed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Current Situation: Apr. 20, 1925 | 4/20/1925 | See Source »

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