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Word: competitione (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ The tenth day passed without the President's signing the Muscle Shoals bill. Ten years had passed while the bill was getting through Congress. The "pocket" method of vetoing saves a President the trouble, or embarrassment, of saying why he disapproves. Presumably, President Coolidge "pocketed" the Muscle Shoals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Estivation | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

From Lowell Schmalz to Andrew Mellon, the country exalts the Coolidge tradition: and the nomination of the silent and efficient Hoover is no divagation. Before Friday night he had no private life, and what he has since acquired is powerful and touching. In his habits he is not of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHO BUT HOOVER? | 6/16/1928 | See Source »

From both an economic and social standpoint, fewer and larger clubs seem desirable. A number of clubs, of course, have elaborate establishments. But a number of others are faced with the necessity of building new club houses to keep up with the competition. Some are not too comfortable financially. Would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 6/15/1928 | See Source »

For submitting the best essay on "Harvard Men in the Revolution", C. L. Lundin '29 was awarded the Patria Society $50 cash prize, it has been announced by Professor Samuel Eliot Morison '08 of the History Department. There were five manuscripts handed in for the Patria competition and of these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LUNDIN WINS PATRIA SOCIETY PRIZE FOR WAR SERVICE ESSAY | 6/14/1928 | See Source »

The Nebraska farmers this time come very near to typifying the attitude of the country as a whole towards the present political season. At Houston, where the Democrats convene soon after, interest reached apt a low pitch that Tex Rickard engaged "one-Eye' Connoly, champion gate-crasher in the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOLF! WOLF! | 6/12/1928 | See Source »

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