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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Previous increases at Harvard have apparently had no effect on the character of the student body; students have continued to come from the same kinds of homes with the same variety of social, financial, and intellectual backgrounds as before; and more important still there has been no diminution in the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Next Academic Year Will See $100 Increase in Tuition Fee | 2/28/1928 | See Source »

The War Department issued a call last week for volunteers to sail for Tientsin with the 15th U. S. Infantry. Said the call: "Applicants . . . will face the most severe enlistment requirements the Army has ever set up. . . . Ex-service men must have been discharged with excellent character to be eligible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Stern Call | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

One of the people who came to church that afternoon was Haldane MacFall, then a London art critic, now the author of a biography of Artist Aubrey Beardsley. His book says little about Beardsley's family, his schooldays, his friends. It conveys scarcely any of the color of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Dandy's Life | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

Philip L. Kale's Aphrodite of the Sea Gulls, a large canvas and well hung, was possibly the most striking picture in the show, not for its originality,: so much as for a brilliant and airy prettiness. The surprising tangle of branches streaked with light in Ross E. Draught's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: On View | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

From the character of Mr. McGraw and from the representative body of men which constitute the jury for the 1927 awards, the significance of the Bok fund in the commercial world may be seen. Even those who delight in the somewhat stale pleasure of Babbitt-baiting cannot deny that economic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PROGRESSIONAL RECORD | 2/18/1928 | See Source »

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