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Word: bitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times. They had not honestly faced the problems of the day and were not living with their generation. The second is the tendency towards intense individualism. You men don't want to be regimented you're not joiners. But both tenancies are temporary, I am not in the least bit worried about them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTEREST IN RELIGION TODAY REAL--FOSDICK | 12/13/1927 | See Source »

...their chief ingredients, so that one can see . . . what dishes one can make from what one has on hand." Thus the possessor of a piece of liversausage will turn to page 244 and may produce Swedish smorgasbord (which, after all, is only a piece of bread with a bit of meat, fish or cheese laid on it and served with butter). While some of the recipes thus draw their charm almost entirely from an exotic name, most teem with lucious promise. Even the grossest of non-gourmets might read on after encountering the book's first sentence: "In America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In the Kitchen | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...cookshop where they tell their tales and croon their tunes. The reader may be gripped with pathos, shaken with laughter-if he escapes suffocation in the cloud of dialect which pervades the book from cover to cover. There is also a spirit of ineffable quaintness at times a bit trying. Gritny People is, perhaps, less fiction than a study of primitive Negro character and lore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Persimmons, Etc. | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...only for the earnest poet and the vague dilettante but for anyone who wishes to acquire an appreciation of good poetry through the simple means of personal trial and failure. Genius, by the way, has never been required for a C in this course, as the writer of this bit of confidence will readily testily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Issues Confidential Guide to Coming Half-Courses | 12/6/1927 | See Source »

Just what "freshwater college" means has always been a bit hazy in my mind, but if it means "lovers' lane;" "the Cannon;' college town;" nearby woods and swimmin' pools, as compared with various asphalt diploma factories, every Freshwater College from Princeton to Siwash will gladly join the chorus. Ask George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

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