Word: classically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME was far from disparaging "Pabst," which it called "classic...
...large crowd in the distance and became part of it immediately. What would draw a crowd on Harvard Square? Your answers must be written legibly and in English, I do not read the papers. Well this time it was a monkey and an Italian. The Italian had a classic profile, a grand air, and a hurdy-gurdy. The monkey had two tricks, a dirty hat, and a leash. No one slept at the lecture...
...betting of all sorts included in the new Churchill budget (TIME, May 3) roused the ire of Britons last week, chiefly because it will tend to raise the price of England's most popular pasteboard commodity: a betting ticket on the Derby, Grand National or other "turf classic." Within the House of Commons, notables waxed wrathful at daring, chubby "Winnie" Churchill, Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer...
...centuries since Lincoln College, Oxford, performed its classic paradox. Founded to combat Lollardry in 1427, it unwittingly fostered a far greater popular schism in the Church by conferring, in 1726, a fellowship upon a young deacon named John Wesley. To such good purpose did the young deacon put the freedom thus afforded him that Lincoln College was not so much honoring as honored when, on the bicentennial of his admission, it lately unveiled in its court a bust of John Wesley, founder of the largest* religious denomination that has grown up in the last 200 years-Methodism...
Those in whom there lurks a fondness for true classic restraint can enjoy the list of names given by the business minds of the University to the new buildings across the Charles. Brevity, which is sometimes thought of as the soul of wit, has attached itself forever to big business. From chorines' skirts to names of buildings the world of affairs and butter and eggs does like brevity. So the halls of higher accounting which the Baker fund has erected in the shadow of the stadium have been succinctly named...