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Word: crowdedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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York, singlehanded, killed 20 Germans, captured Hill 240 in the Argonne, compelled the surrender of 132 Germans and 37 machine guns. Having seen the world, he returned to his mountains, decided the mountaineers needed education, established the "York Foundation" to educate mountain children. Two years ago he started an industrial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mountain School | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

Youthful Germans will learn astronomy from planetaria installed in eleven cities. Craning their necks from seats in the very centre of these imitation universes, they will watch their professors speed up eternity, compel sun, moon and stars to step lively, giving their classes in a few minutes demonstrations of changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Planetaria | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

Five hundred torches pierced the blackness of a Vienna night. Five hundred dark-coated figures crowded their way down a crooked street in the Himmel-pfortgrund, stopped before an empty house tucked away there, hummed an invocatory pitch and sang the Serenade of Franz Peter Schubert. So last week, on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Centennial | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

There is a long gap in the story after this. Then there is a picture, as brief and bright as something dreamed, of a slender, excited boy standing in the centre of a circle of old men. The gloom and whisper of a temple surrounds them, the rustle of wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Jesus Christ | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

To the ever increasing stock of what may be called circumstantial evidence on the Reading Period, the Secretary to the University for Employment today, elsewhere in the CRIMSON, adds his share. And more than a possible misapplication of Harvard's latest educational experiment would seem to have been avoided. Fears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "TO CAMBRIDGE BOOKS HE SENT" | 1/26/1928 | See Source »

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