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Word: choses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personal relies of Amy Lowell which was put on view yesterday. Among these are notebooks written in her scrawl at nine years of age, while in Berlin. In these can be found her first efforts at verse. There are also manuscripts of later poems showing how well she chose her words and constructed and fitted her lines. Letters, notes for her lectures in Boston on Keats and Matthew Arnold, and many photographs complete the collection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALLEN DELIVERS FIRST MORRIS GRAY LECTURE | 12/16/1931 | See Source »

...Bang silenced everyone and declared: "Should I meet the man I chose for my husband, I would have to tell him and he would shrink from me. Nor could I conceive children, who one day might ask me whether rumors were true that I slew my mother. The only way for me is to confess publicly and regain my peace of mind and soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mercy Murder | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...article on my election to Congress, a part of which surprised and considerably distressed me. You state that "he went into the campaign as a lashing, slashing Wet. He declared that he always got all the liquor he wanted and that he intended to keep on drinking whenever he chose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...editor, Rabbi Isaac Landman, last year's medal was awarded to Newton Diehl Baker, Protestant chairman of the National Conference of Jews & Christians. When the judges-who include Jane Addams, Professor John Dewey. Bishop William Thomas Manning, Otto Hermann Kahn, Mayor James John Walker-met this year, they chose Archbishop Hanna because: he sponsored the Berkeley Seminar which meets once a month in California for goodwill between Christian & Jew; "because he personally addressed audiences gathered for the purpose of promoting better understanding;" because his work has been "a major influence in its progress throughout the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Understander | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

Harvard, who initiated the idea, chose Stanford as the contender, basing the choice upon the high quality of Indian debaters in the past few years. The debate will take place November 27 over the Columbia broadcasting system and allied stations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stanford vs. Harvard | 11/25/1931 | See Source »

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