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Word: darke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smooth-skinned gentleman with bushy dark beard and silky hair then added: "I go in a year's time. I shall take every English musician to America with me I can. . . . A friend of mine in California spends as much on an orchestra as we spend in the whole of England. The future home of English opera is the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Exile Coming | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...last few days without becoming dispossessed of her perch upon the Ibis bough. Unlike Horace who was quite selfish when his famous tree fell, the CRIMSON worries more about the tree than the fact that its fall hurt no one but the reputation of him, who in the dark of night, saw fit to saw the Ibis tree. Such gestures should remain the prerogative of the insane--perhaps they have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CUT DIRECT | 11/11/1926 | See Source »

...badger-like Belgian, Professor George Van Biesbroeck, squatted in his dusky cavern, mapping what he could see, through Earth's shaking atmosphere, of the 1926 Martian geography. He disregarded the two little moons that circle Mars (the inner one twice daily) and concentrated on the dark-stained areas of its surface which remain fairly constant in their own cycle of changes and seem to indicate the existence of seasons on Mars-a 340-day summer and 347-day winter. Last week it was summer time on Mars' earthward hemisphere. The planet's ice cap was almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mars | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...Newbery medal was awarded to Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon for his Story of Mankind. The next year Author Hugh Lofting's Dr. Dolittle stories were honored. Then Author Charles Boardman Hawes produced The Dark Frigate. In 1924, much-traveled Author Charles Joseph Finger published Tales From Silver Lands and won the prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Week | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

Viewing this season with the material on hand, Coach Edward Wachter will start the schedule with a rather dark outlook. The ineligibility of S. C. Burns '29 and Benjamin Thackaberry '29, mainstays of last year's Freshman team, and the loss by graduation of Captain W. T. Smith '26, and C. J. Rauh of last year's University five, have reduced the offensive power of the squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASKETBALL QUINTET IN FOR DIFFICULT SEASON | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

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