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Word: bunches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Burr, Burr, what has thou done? Thou, has shooted dead great Hamilton. You hid behind a bunch of thistle And shot him dead with a great hoss pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: High Times | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

...hearty at the age of 76, Arthur James Balfour, Earl of that name, descended from his bedroom one bright foggy morning into his electrically lit study in his electrically lit house in Carlton Gardens, London. He sank agedly into a chair before his writing desk, took up a bunch of letters, sorted them, opened a cablegram from Palestine sent by the Arab Executive, political agency of the Arabs, read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hostile Arabs | 3/9/1925 | See Source »

...saddest loking dummesehullen I ever looked down on What on earth made all these blank faces flock to my course? Last year's crop was a fine, studious crowd. Appreciative too: they knew a good joke when they heard one. They laughed every time I told it. But this bunch! Well, I'll have to get through the hour somehow. Then back to Boccaccio. Think I'll read over those passages in Rabelais again. Nothing like those fine old writers to make the fire of youth surge once more through these old veins. Hm-m time to start! Think...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/11/1925 | See Source »

...obtaining something away from this rotten propaganda that is swamping the mails, but I notice a cut of Rockefeller, and a sweet eulogy of this saint that would make a dog sick (in your last issue). If I were to write what I think about that sweeted-scented bunch of Standard Oil mob, I would do time for mailing profanity through the U. S. Mails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 2, 1925 | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

...Madison, Wis., the unrest took a particular form. Scott H. Goodnight, dean of men at the University of Wisconsin, spoke roundly to the sophomore council: "A tradition is being established outside of Wisconsin . . . that we are a bunch of cake eaters.¹ Does not our record of parties and dances go to substantiate this tradition? There are 80 fraternities and sororities on the campus that put on a dance or party on the average of once a month. There are ten fraternities that have an average of two dances a month and one . . . an average of three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Balm | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

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