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Word: brownings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them untrue. For example, Dr. Faunce appreciates a good cigar and keeps a box of one of the best brands always ready to enjoy with his friends. The appointment of Percy Marks was terminated before the publication of The Plastic Age. Neither Chinese nor Negroes are numerous at Brown, although her gates are open to both, and should be so in a land of equal opportunity. Far from being undistinguished in his undergraduate days, Faunce was one of the leading scholars in his class. You ought to know better than to suppose that the degrees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...your magazine is meant to conform to this ideal, the least that you can do is to print an apology for your article of Oct. 22 and tell your readers what has actually been the career of Dr. Faunce at Brown. He came to the university at the close of a bitter controversy over his predecessor which rendered a large portion of the alumni hostile to the new president. Because of his tact, honesty, and faith in the university, the breach was quickly healed. A natural reserve made it difficult for Dr. Faunce at first to enter into the life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Spokesmen Hughes and Borah were somewhat impeded in the East, towards the finish, by the popular impetus of Governor Smith's homeland campaigning and by the alertness of the Brown Derby's ablest assistant, the New York World. Editorial Writer Walter Lippmann and Governor Smith managed to draw both the Messrs. Hughes and Borah into side-arguments and self-explanations. Mr. Hughes was nettled to such an extent that he talked about "mudslingers," wisecrack artists" and "calumny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Finale | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

That the customary date of this game has been filled is no reason for the cutting off of football relations since there are at least three other week ends on either schedule which could better be allotted to the traditional meeting. No other game as Brown men see it can fill the place of that with Harvard and the opinion expressed in the letter from the "Crimson" would substantiate the view that Harvard men feel the same...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/8/1928 | See Source »

...Brown with us feel that it is for the best interests of football of Harvard and of Brown that the 35th Brown Harvard game should be played and that it should be followed by a host of other meetings of the Crimson and the Brown. Brown Daily Herald

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/8/1928 | See Source »

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