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Word: d (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, D. C., a malignant growth was removed, last week, from the throat of Robert D. Ford, Assistant Prohibition Administrator of Baltimore. The growth was believed to have resulted from a piece of grass which Mr. Ford chewed and swallowed, two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Meteors rise and flare with no more suddenness than Racqueteer Huntington D. Sheldon. Last week he entered his first amateur championship racquets tournament. On Sunday, having trounced Clarence C. Pell three games to two, he was crowned champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Racquets | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...sequel to The Three Musketeers. The voice, like all filmed voices, creaks a little, but the spirit which the poetry fails to achieve is incorporated in the superb acrobatics of the only living actor who is also a great athlete. He has his best rôle again ? D'Artagnan. Cardinal Richelieu, crafty, red-robed, plots endlessly to separate the four swashbucklers who at night sleep side by side in one wide bed and finally die side by side in one battle. Under the window ledge a saddle waits; one leap, and rescue drums toward the girl (Marguerite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...Spinoza's Ethics", Professor Eaton, Emerson D...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...School, according to the same announcement, voted to a tie in selecting President-elect Herbert Hoover and Colonel Lindbergh as their favorite world figure, prefer a major "Y" to Sigma Xi, and hold Princeton as their favorite college next to Yale. Their list of favorites in various fields includes d'Artagnan in fiction; Napoleon in history; "The Three Musketeers" among novels; Dumas among prose authors; "If" among poems; and Tennyson among poets. The class favors the Republican Party over the Democratic Party by a vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Men Prefer Phi Beta Kappa Key to Major "Y"--Pick Harvard as Favored College--Read Saturday Evening Post | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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