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Word: come (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wall of the north portion of the White House is a bell. On a recent afternoon. President Coolidge pressed this bell repeatedly, scampered quickly away. To the north portico rushed a detail of Secret Service men, to whom the bell's ringing was a summons to come at once. From a distance, the President watched their confusion, heard them ask the Secret Service man on patrol duty why he had rung the bell, heard the patrolman's denial of any bell-ringing. After the guards had dispersed, the President stole back, again pressed the button, again trotted away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...announcement in Friday's CRIMSON to the effect that the Class of 1930 will soon have an opportunity to express an opinion on the feasibility of a Class Dance has come to my attention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diminuendo | 1/19/1929 | See Source »

...When completely carried out, it will naturally have a grave effect not only upon whatever clubs exist at Harvard but upon University athletics and all University extra-curriculum activities. A new inter-house athletic system and certainly a good amount of inter-house rivalry in other departments will come to take their place, or at any rate be added to them. Inter-class distinctions will be lessened; and there will be a closer contact with the Instructors and tutors who live in the new Houses. The individual will receive more attention, and social distinctions will be materially lessened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Applauds | 1/19/1929 | See Source »

Tastes change so rapidly that "hits" come and go within a week. College buyers are always ahead of the market, and prove fickle in the extreme. Eccentricity makes a forecast of musical sales impossible, as frequently the students fall to accept songs rated as certain favorites. Sometimes they give vogue to a record by their patronage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Gobbles Smooth Syncopation While Harvard Exercise Varied Taste--Beethoven, Ted Lewis Mingle | 1/19/1929 | See Source »

...Riegels, the 175 lb. centre and captain-elect of the California football team, sat last week in the warm sun on the sidelines, with 70,000 people staring down at him and shouting. Not one of them would have changed places with him. The Rose Bowl Tournament has come to be in a sense the most significant football event of the year. At the end of each season, the best of the Eastern teams is invited to play the best team beyond the Rockies, in the Rose Bowl, at Arroyo Seco just outside of Pasadena.* This year, after the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Riegels' Run | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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