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Word: cames (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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About 70 Freshman hockey aspirants reported at Smith Halls Common Room yesterday at the initial 1933 hockey meeting of the year. This is considerably more than came out last year for the Freshman sextet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STARTING SEXTET STILL A MYSTERY AS B.U. TILT NEARS | 12/17/1929 | See Source »

...Miss Brown, you're not a bit like a teacher; you're so human.' . . . Are we wrong, I wonder, offering Art Appreciation and Workshop along with Arithmetic? . . . Yesterday I had a letter from Ned Thompson thanking me for persuading him to go to Yale. . . . Before I came to high school, I taught in the grades. Each morning Ikey Stein brought me roses which he had gathered in the cemetery. Patsy O'Reilly presented me with three battered toothbrushes; his father was a garbage collector. . . . I banged down the top of my desk; I should correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schoolhouse Fauna | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...baby. For a while she managed, by weaving baskets and selling them to summer tourists. Then she cooked for a logging camp. Then she took men. Joe Pete grew, watched what was going on loved his mother, took care of the other children, said nothing. When the Lithuanian Jaakkola came to the island, Mabel's degeneration became complete. Two of the children died, Mabel died, Joe Pete went away to school, learned how to help his Ojibway people, helpless before the white man's legal wiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U. S. Thoroughbred | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...large scale out of colossal chaos. Louis' father, Charles VII, had been that weak-kneed Dauphin whom Joan of Arc crowned. Charles turned out better as a king than he had been as a Dauphin; but when his impatient son Louis (he led two rebellions against his father) came to the throne, at 38, he found France still disunited, Paris disloyal, the English threatening, and such powerful nobles as the Duke of Burgundy openly his enemies. The whole kingdom was exhausted by the Hundred Years' War. Fertile regions were wastelands; brigandage, starvation, lawlessness were everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...soloist in Bronxville, N. Y. where he romantically won his wife with the aid of an elopers' ladder. Called one day for jury duty in Manhattan, he found himself near No. 195 Broadway, then headquarters of WEAF. He walked in, took a voice test, got a job. Fame came quickly. His reporting of the long-drawn 1924, Democratic National Convention in Manhattan established him as most popular U. S. announcer. Soon no football game, world series, horse race, prizefight, inauguration was complete without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Talking Reporter | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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