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Word: blackness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...score of Negroes lynched stood last week at nine (Florida, three; Mississippi, two; Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, one each), when out of Texas came grisly news of another lynching. But this was a special lynching and did not alter Texas' position on the Black List. Instead of a Negro, the Texans lynched a white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: String Him Up | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Theological School (Cambridge), he was ordained an Episcopal minister. For five years before being called to the headmastership of St. Mark's, he taught at Groton School, old-lime St. Mark's rival. Every St. Marksman knows that the football jerseys of "Grotties" are laterally striped in black and white. Should the Groton game be won, crepe is hung upon a stuffed zebra at the lower end of the St. Mark's dining hall where all can gloat over the shame of the Groton mule. Just as Eton has its "fives" (a handball game played between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Twill | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...scholarship, executive ability, industry, efficiency, reliability, and personality. Minor sports numerals and letters will be awarded to University and Freshman managers. These numerals will all be of the same type, in accordance with the recommendation of the Minor Sports Council last month. At that time red numerals on a black background, to be worn on a white sweater with no letters to signify what division of minor sports the wearer has represented, were recommended. The minor sports "H" is the same as that adopted by the Student Council last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPETITIONS IN MINOR SPORTS TO BE AMALGAMATED | 11/27/1929 | See Source »

...BRING THAT UP? (Moran & Mack)?Famous black face badinage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Elasticity and Strength of Materials", Professor Black, Jefferson Physical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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