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Word: cap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presents from boy and men admirers all over the U. S. at his home, Brooklands, near Suffern, N. Y. Some of the presents: an alligator skin from Florida; a bolt of homespun from the Kentucky Blue Ridge Mountains; catlinite (reddish slate) peace-pipe from Indians in Minnesota; a coonskin cap from the Carolinas; a bronze bucking broncho from the Executive Board of B. S. A.; riding chaps from Texas; a blanket from Navajo Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 30, 1930 | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...Negro to enter Rutgers. "When he graduated in June 1919, he had won his Phi Beta Kappa key, and had been selected by Walter Camp as end for his annual All-American football team. . . . He had won 12 letters. . . . He delivered the Commencement oration; and he was elected to Cap & Skull" (the four seniors "who most truly and fully represented the finest ideals and traditions of Rutgers"). At Columbia Law School, too, he did well. Then, waiting for something to turn up, he got the part of Jim Harris in Eugene O'Neill's play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Water Boy | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes, on his way to Chicago from London, stopped off at the Lawrenceville School, in New Jersey; wore cap & gown at commencement exercises (he is a trustee of the school) ; saw his adopted son, Dana McCutcheon Dawes, 18, graduated; lunched at "Dawes House,"* erected by him in memory of his son, Rufus, who was drowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 23, 1930 | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

Whenever a graduating class of college men gathers together for the last time, the average observer who marks the occasional black of cap and gown benath the tranquil June sky inevitably hears, like an echo from some forgotten source, the magic words: "Out into the great world." Each generation that has graduated and grown old has tinged this period with roseate vagueness until all the days of youth become "carefree" and all the trees have become immemorial elms. Memory is usually kind to the college years, and the returning grad of the nineties condenses them into a pleasant bundle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE GREAT WORLD" MYTH | 6/7/1930 | See Source »

Completing his swing around northern Italy (TIME, May 26) Signer Benito Mussolini drove his roaring Alpha Romeo into the small town of Sesto San Giovanni last week, removed his dusty cap and goggles, was soon addressing a throng of workmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Who? Who? You! You! | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

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