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Word: considerable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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No average undergraduate could have so surely plunged his rapier to the heart of a system long held the most invulnerable dragon of the American system; there remains only to consider which varies most from the norm, the robot on one side, or he whom the first news article immortalizes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EX MACHINA | 2/5/1929 | See Source »

¶ The beginnings of the Republican Party remain somewhat of a mystery. Historians generally agree on the year as 1854. But the place is in dispute. Historian Charles A. Beard thinks that a mass meeting held in Ripon, Wis., was the true party matrix. Historian William Starr Myers of Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

Plainly the President wishes to leave a surplus for Mr. Hoover. Observers inferred that he did not consider it "big business" to drain the present treasury for cruisers or prohibition enforcement (see p. 10).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Budget Bouquet | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

Thus last week groveled and fawned Signer Riccardo Forster, editor of the largest news organ in Southern Italy, Il Mattino of Naples. Meanwhile, however, a very slight and cautious reaction from such typical abasement was setting in at Rome. There, a diligent official dared to criticise pampered Mario Carli, editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: All Highest Duce | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

It is suggested that the essays might consider the following points: Should the college be located in the city or in the country? What is the best number of students for a college to have. In order to best serve the individual and the group? What is the best manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW REPUBLIC HOLDS PRIZE ESSAY CONTEST | 2/1/1929 | See Source »

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