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Word: considerable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Feminine falsetto and masculine might of lung now join in a great volume of incoherent sound at the commands of gentlemen with flannel trousers and megaphones and the play wrights and the moving pictures consider the Rah-rah as the regular undergraduate greeting. Forty years ago these cheers were objects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson and Blue Oarsmen Inspired First Organized Cheers in College Sport--Early Cornell "Cry" Called Irreverent | 1/25/1927 | See Source »

The Saturday Evening Post has not planned and would not consider such an article as you mention in your letter of December 16th. The same thing is true of our other periodicals. The Ladies Home Journal and The Country Gentleman. It is possible that you informant had some other weekly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vain Attempt to Spike Hubbard's Charges Shown by Lowell's Notes | 1/25/1927 | See Source »

Within 90 days, responsible men stated last week, definite plans will be submitted to the Interstate Commerce Commission for consolidation of the Great Northern Railroad and the Northern Pacific Railroad. These two roads already own 97% of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (the Burlington).† So it is probable that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: James Roads | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

Half the people in Chicago were jammed on the sidewalk in front of the People's Gas Building. Upstairs, in the office of the baseball commission, Charles ("Swede") Risberg, banned shortstop, told how Detroit threw a series of games to the Chicago White Sox in 1917. He spoke for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scandal | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

Married. Frank W. Savin, 76, second oldest member of the New York Stock Exchange; to one Anna Mary Schleis, 41, onetime chambermaid in his home; in Port Chester, N. Y. She, Czechoslovakian and his fourth bride, assured the other servants that she would "still consider the members of the household...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 17, 1927 | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

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