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Word: burnses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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It is feared that the meagre details in the reports form sufficient identifying evidence to make certain Freshmen the objects of public pillory. The fact that a man is out for crew or for the Dean's List, commendable as it may be, is hardly rare enough to ensure popular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOUNTAINS FROM MOLE HILLS | 10/30/1926 | See Source »

I first came to Harvard some years ago imbued with the idea of her traditions and adherance to the customs of old. Many of these I found and still cherish, that is why my spirit burns to see the old Waldorf chairs no longer in their wonted place. For many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sic Transit. | 10/15/1926 | See Source »

When President Coolidge settled back in his old green wicker rocker just before leaving White Pine Camp, and droned along for an hour or more, opening his heart to a curly-headed man with angelic eyes (TIME, Oct. 4); and when the angelic one, Publicist Bruce Barton, discoverer of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Irate Boys | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

Largesse In the Prince of Wales suite on board the Cunarder Berengaria, Sanders A. Wertheim, president of Burns Brothers, coal dealers, heard the stewards bawling: "All ashore that's going ashore." His cabin, the most expensive space the Cunard line can sell on any of its ships, was littered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Rooster | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

Dr. Field's medical confreres were vexed at his publicity. The explanation: radium activates chemical processes that would otherwise occur very slowly if at all. Chemicals coloring the hard carbon-crystals of diamond are oxidized by radium in salts or even weak solutions. Cost ratio: a $100 yellow stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radium-Diamonds | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

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