Word: deeded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...type and geographical distribution from Yale, Amherst, and Wellesley to Grinnell, Randolph-Macon, and Wabash College. The interviews are brief, honest, and each is brought in to illustrate a specific point. Through them one is able to form a nebulous idea of the state, of thought, word and deed in the average university...
...overcome by carbon monoxide gas. Attracted by the cries of his secretary, policemen, passing in a car, drove in but they were too ignorant to be of any help. With them in their car the policemen had two captured thieves who, straining in their handcuffs to do a good deed, pumped and wiggled the doctor until he began to breathe again...
Protestants might scoff, or heretics sneer. The slant eyelids of infidels might even lower in sedate winks. But General Umberto Nobile clung to the medal as tangible proof that his pious deed of dropping a large Papal cross on the North Pole (TIME, June 4) has found highest favor in the eyes of the Most Blessed Father and Supreme Pontiff, Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI. Enthusiastic, His Holiness sent along with the medal his "warmest congratulations," and finally imparted a solemn Papal blessing...
...next month, when he boards his new private car (the first he has owned) for a vacation in Maine, he will find "Friendship" lettered on its sides. Almost, friendship is a secondary business with Publisher Block. On his office desk lies a small brown leather book, stencilled "A Deed a Day." Here his secretary eagerly inscribes the Block benefactions: $5,000 to Commander Byrd, $10,000 for a new cathedral, $500 for the widow of a Manhattan fireman or policeman, an order to serve lemonade in his newspaper offices...
...least a twelvemonth enemies of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré have confidently prophesied that his Cabinet would fall soon after he should have put the franc back on a gold basis-a deed done last fortnight (TIME, July 2). Even staunchest friends feared, last week, for the grizzled statesman's grip on Power. His famed Cabinet of Sacred Union comprises representatives of parties bitterly opposed, who laid down their political tomahawks solely because of the desperate emergency created by the slithering fall of the franc (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926). Today the paper franc is good as gold; and French...