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Word: customs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although it is not the custom of The Vagabond to mention events so far ahead, he thought that it would be well to tell his readers that Beethoven's Missa Solemnis will be performed on Sunday, March 25, at Symphony Hall as well as the already announced presentation on the preceding Tuesday. Vagabonds desiring to hear this would do well to procure their accommodations early...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 3/5/1927 | See Source »

...these columns recently an article reprinted from the Harvard Crimson stated the views of Harvard and a small clique of eastern colleges regarding the action of the National Collegiate Association in withdrawing from membership on the American Olympic Committee because that organization had re-vented to its old custom of being dominated by and subservient...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/26/1927 | See Source »

...North End funerals. The Aryan faith required that a man have a decent burial, and for those who could not provide one, the funeral associations existed. While the Christians only inhumed the bodies of the deceased, the pagans used cremation as well. It was as a result of this custom that the Christians built the Catacombs to receive the bodies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LA PIANA TELLS OF WORK ON EARLY ROMAN LIFE | 2/24/1927 | See Source »

...custom to scrawl on a piece of paper, 'El-Hadj Alemán,' (the German Pilgrim) and leave it prominently displayed. I must have done this 20 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Caid El-Hadj | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...been the custom, the privilege and the honor, for incoming editorial boards to announce the arrival of a new era--one which, the young hopefuls are fond of asserting, bears close resemblancme to the millenium. The Yale Daily News, however, declares that it is abandoning this egotistic bombast: the new board offers no "elaborate platform"; conservatism will be the watchword, and the new editors will not rashly discard the traditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BETTER PART OF VALOR | 2/11/1927 | See Source »

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