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Word: columbia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senior year because as he succinctly puts it, "The old man's broke," goes slightly berserk at a debutante party where champagne flows in buckets and orates impolitely to his hostess: "You sit here and smile and talk about mistakes and starving men and studying art at Columbia and what does it all amount to?" Mr. Bach finds, apparently, that it amounts to the inevitable disintegration of capitalistic society, and ironically points out, in "So You're a Parlor Pink," that the nice, humane, middle-class intellectuals who toy with communistic theories contribute materially to their own subversion; he concludes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advocate Shows Pessimistic Students Trying to Find Place in the Social Scheme, Says Miller | 5/2/1935 | See Source »

Coach Harry Cowles expressed himself as very much pleased with the showing of the team last Saturday in the match with Columbia but added that they showed the lack of outdoor competi- tion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undefeated Tennis Team to Match Strokes With Bruins | 5/1/1935 | See Source »

...Dartmouth 2 0 0 1.000 Harvard 3 1 0 .750 Cornell 3 2 0 .600 Yale 1 1 0 .500 Princeton 2 3 0 .400 Columbia 2 3 0 .400 Pennsylvania...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball League Standing | 4/30/1935 | See Source »

...TIME'S 77 subscribers in Anchorage (pop. 2,227) the advertiser makes the following explanation for the regrettable omission: "In the Anchorage neighborhood the map space is particularly small and there was not room for city names along with Mt. McKinley and Columbia Glacier. To keep the map clear, and also on the theory that tourists traveling to Columbia Glacier, Seward, Mt. McKinley and Fairbanks would be bound to visit Anchorage, the name of Anchorage had to be sacrificed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 29, 1935 | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

Meanwhile the Varsity racquetmen will match shots with Columbia at 2.80 o'clock on the Divinity Courts at the same time as the first year stars tackle the Andover schoolboys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUGBY, LACROSSE, AND TENNIS MATCHES TODAY | 4/27/1935 | See Source »

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