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Word: bills (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bill Roper has worked his men into furious frenzy and if they don't get Yale, they will get Booth. And therefore, though I hesitate to predict any victory, I can say that extensive research has proved betting against Princeton is often unsound. Harvard 16 Holy Cross 7 Yale 6 Princeton 0 Dartmouth 19 Cornell 12 Pittsburgh 20 Carnegie Tech 0 Notre Dame 14 S. California 13 Purdue 7 Iowa 6 Tennessee 14 Vanderbilt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: By Hu Flung Huey | 11/16/1929 | See Source »

...situation really assumes a distinctly calamitous aspect when one takes a brief glimpse at the perennial bills which now decorate Harvard desks throughout the college. What with the unfortunate outcome of the Michigan game and the past unpleasantness in Wall Street, the financial atmosphere of Cambridge has become distinctly heavy. A term bill is bad enough, the anticipated outlay for the Yale week-end will be worse, and for those who sport license plates of dashing colors the thought of registration and insurance is the last straw. That such an accumulation of gargantuan expenses should be presented at one fell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM FAR AFIELD | 11/12/1929 | See Source »

Rebutted the Countess of Iveagh, M. P.: "Then why not give widowers something for nothing? . . . Furthermore the bill discriminates against spinsters, who may be quite as worthy as widows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Parliament Opens | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...Puccini's Girl of the Golden West. What more natural, despite the fact that the opera failed miserably when given in Manhattan with Emmy Destinn and Enrico Caruso in 1910, than that Jeritza should want to give her version in Manhattan, that General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza should bill it as the first revival of the new season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wild West | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...blind at first to the burden of his own color, Author Gordon dreamed of the East where he would be a brown, pagan tycoon. He won the East and more as songster, not tycoon. Still pagan, he says: "There are only two things I worship in life, a dollar bill and a pretty girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Highbrown Highbrow | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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