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Word: considerable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Asked whether he would use statistical material in support of his statements, Reading replied that he did not consider statistics vital. "As a matter of fact, the available figures, while not well compiled, favor my side of the argument. The statistics compiled by the Census Department in Washington are useful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS UPHELD BY READING | 12/13/1927 | See Source »

...Harvard seems long ago and far away, consider one of Wesleyan's younger sisters--or girl friends, rather. Considerably less than a century ago the following regulations were more or less observed at Mt. Holyoke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Student Had Rigorous Religious Training in 1734--Girls at Mt. Holyoke Seminary Washed Potatoes | 12/13/1927 | See Source »

The National Liberal Political fund was collected by the whips of that party in exactly the same way as every other political fund, Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative, for well over a century. ... As for the honor lists* during my Premiership, they were prepared by the chief whips in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Cowardly Slander | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

Cleveland spends high praise on its ten-year-old orchestra, on Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff who has been with the orchestra since its birth. Con- ductor Sokoloff evidently does not hold the Cleveland musical public in the same high regard. Often he is vexed by it-for coming late, for coughing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cleveland Rebuked | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

When Roy Archibald Young newly installed Governor of the Federal Reserve Board rose brusquely from his dining chair at the ninth annual meeting of the American Acceptance Council in Manhattan last week, members studied the blocky, curly-headed man inquisitively. Mr. Young had a reputation for diffidence. When President Coolidge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trade Acceptances | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

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