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Word: brownings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea of the "rays", not new, but come close to home, breeds startling ramifications. What boots a Bermuda trip at the peril of permanent indigence, or long weeks of semi-nude labor in the single sculls when the golden brown reward can be reaped with five minutes a day under the Actinic glow? Along with William Blake's little man on the ladder reaching for the moon, the cry of the undergraduate will be "I want, I want." A set of violet rays in the squash courts could do much toward alleviating this new form of malnutrition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A RAY OF HOPE | 1/12/1928 | See Source »

...guard will be seen tonight fighting for the University when the Crimson players meet the Middlebury College team at 8 o'clock in Hemenway Gymnasium. This will be the third contest of the season for the University hoop-men, the first two games being lost to Boston University and Brown University consecutively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVAMPED QUINTET FACES MIDDLEBURY | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

Despite their name, the Ethiopians do not consider themselves racially homogeneous with aboriginal Africa. Color varies In Ethiopia, from a pale olive among the northern inhabitants, through deep brown in the central part of the Kingdom to chocolate tints and true black in the farthest south. Ras Taffari, prince regent, is a black southerner but of the special superior blackness of the province of Shoa. Slim, short, wiry, Prince Ras Taffari considers himself super-Negroid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: To Ethiopia | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...RECKONING-Stephen McKenna -Little, Brown ($2.50). This is the last volume in the series of three called The Realists. The central figures in the series are again three: Ambrose Sheridan, titan and punching politician, who marries Auriol Otway who loves Max Hendry. In Due Reckoning, the Gordian knot of this situation is not sliced but neatly untied by Author McKenna. That he had the untying in mind when he first pulled the strings tight is sufficiently obvious; and Auriol's prayers for the one chance in a hundred that will release her from a marriage that was never more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Due Reckoning | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

Sayre--Evans, Liss v. St. Leonards--Brown, Warnick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Publish List of Debaters in First Year Law Club Debates | 1/7/1928 | See Source »

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