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Word: corrective (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enclosed card is to be filled out and sent with the correct amount to James De Normandie '29, treasurer, 43 Randolph, before Friday, February 17. All members attending are advised and requested to give their immediate attention to the applications...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUNIOR DANCE APPLICATIONS FOR 984 MEN NOW IN MAIL | 2/8/1928 | See Source »

...Class of 1929, containing a circular letter and subscription card, wil be in the mail by 12 o'clock today, it was announced last night by A. R. Sweezy '29, chairman of the Junior Dance Committee. The enclosed card is to be filled out and sent with the correct amount of James De Normandle '29, treasurer, 43 Randolph, before Friday, February 17. Tickets wil be $8 for couples and $5 for stags...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1929 Dance Applications Out | 2/7/1928 | See Source »

...before the bands of Rotarians and Kiwanians with H. L. Mencken tied to a chariot wheel descend on the colleges to butcher the decadent inhabitants, it is only fair that the people be allowed, in the correct tradition, to stage some orgies. Unfortunately there exists the anomaly that the clerical calumniators who would naturally on such occasions be fed to other than literary lions, are keeping, the projected revellers tightly strapped to the stake. The materials for Bacchanalia cannot be obtained in sufficient amount, and the police would not allow Saturnalia. Before the destruction finally comes, then, the authorities must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROMAN ROAD TO HELL | 1/31/1928 | See Source »

...going to die, how they can achieve riches, why they do not get along with blondes, where they should travel. Since centuries before Tut of the Egyptians, a canny minority has been answering these more-or-less cosmic riddles for the curious majority. The answers are not always correct, but they have some fine trappings?crimson draperies, crystal balls, ouija boards, wet towels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...will rear Vera in the name of eugenics. Mrs. Burnham's relatives and father, Dr. Max Mailhouse of New Haven, Conn., were reported to be "harmonious with the situation." Professor Ellsworth Huntington of Yale, geographer, whose hobby is eugenics, said: "From a purely scientific standpoint, it was the correct thing for her [Mrs. Burnham] to do, although there is some doubt that it was best from a social standpoint." The public, shocked at the thought of the unknown-unmarried-young-man-father, debated whether Vera would some day be made unhappy by whispering schoolfellows and whether she would become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Eugenic Child | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

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