Word: braced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gazed reflectively out of the window of his little cabin under Widener gate. "Take St. Patrick's day for instance. I've seen it pouring on Harvard Square and three hundred students out parading in the rain, soaked outside and in. They would stop every block or so to brace up their spirits, and keep on marching. If they stopped for the kind of bracers they get today, no one would ever finish the parade...
Last year's notice: "An anthology of the best sermons of 1923-24 is now being collected and edited by Joseph Fort Newton, pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity, Manhattan. The first volume is announced for September publication by Harcourt Brace & Co., who brought out Papini's Life of Christ. The collection is open to ail creeds and all varieties thereof. Readers of TIME who desire to nominate sermons should address Dr. Newton at 76th Street and Central Park West, Manhattan...
...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: THE HOME-MAKER-Dorothy Canfield-Harcourt Brace ($2.00). Wearily Lester Knapp lay down at night, and in the morning roused up wearier. He hated his job in the dry-goods store, and was a failure at it. His wife scrubbed the floor, harangued the children, cooked the food, ate her heart out. On the day Knapp lost his position he came home to find his house on fire; he climbed up on the icy roof, praying that he would slip...
...PLUMES - Laurence Stallings - Harcourt, Brace...
...BLACK LAUGHTER-Llewelyn Powys-Hareourt, Brace...