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Word: complimenting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia, five-cent postcards by Pennell and Thornton Oakley are being exhibited. The British Society of Architects offers three annual scholarships, valued at ?300 each, open to British subjects under 40. The holder of the first is required to spend six months of architectural study in America-a graceful compliment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Hardship | 4/7/1923 | See Source »

Truly the old ideas are going by the board when the "impossible" happens, and football players prove students, even scholars with gold keys. The days of sarcasm about the "athletic course at Harvard" are over; and the ancient compliment can be altered to "an athlete and a scholar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE ATHLETIC COURSE" | 3/28/1923 | See Source »

...proportion of "stars" will vary from year to year like the New England snow fall. But that the relatively small number of American students who annually go to Oxford and Cambridge will ever constitute a "menace" to English Universities is quite ridiculous. The very presence of Americans is a compliment to British scholarship and aids in the maintenance of a tradition, of no small value to both countries. Not until whole crews, track teams entire, and complete chapters of Phi Beta Kappa sail for English shores can the pessimist, English or American have any grounds for worry about the gravity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICAN IMPERIALISM | 3/26/1923 | See Source »

...time in its history, the University Glee Club, as the result of an invitation extended by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will sing with the Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, New York City, at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon. The invitation, establishing a precedent for amateur Glee Clubs, is an unusual compliment to the work of the University Glee Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB TO SING IN NEW YORK TODAY | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

...breach of editorial etiquette, savors of a loyal irrelevance. An apology is doubtless due the board from the editors of the anthology for their disregard of such lofty aesthetic standards. M. A. B. says the Poetry Society is in no way expressive of student taste. This is a compliment. He ends his review with the word, envy. This is not without psychological significance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 2/27/1923 | See Source »

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