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Word: deservedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Freshmen well deserved their victory in the University contests, for in addition to being on the outside of a curved course, thereby rowing farther than their opponents, they held throughout a stroke two or more points below that of the Crimson first eight.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY A AGAIN TRAILS 1926 EIGHT | 5/17/1923 | See Source »

Mendelssohn's ever favored Elijah, intoned by the regular festival chorus of 325 and an added band of 80 men and women singers from the National Cash Register Company, with 48 professional vocalists to chant t he solo parts so that the quartettes were themselves fair sized choruses-that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cincinnati Festival | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

Sheer fighting spirit, combined effectually with a stroke which remained crisp and powerful throughout the gruelling mile and seven-eights course, gave the Freshman crew a well-deserved victory over Coach Muller's University eight Saturday afternoon on the basin. Nearly, two lengths of open water bore mute testimony to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY EIGHT TRAILS 1926 CREW | 4/30/1923 | See Source »

Is History Tricked by Literary Focality? Perhaps George F. Babbitt of Zenith had it coming to him. He was an enormously ignorant, ineffectual, and complacent man. His tribe of hemen, go-getters and parasites upon public cupidity and gullibility deserved to be pilloried by Sinclair Lewis. But his more talented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thirteen Tarkingtons* | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

Now that Coue and King Tut-ankh Amen have begun to pall on the readers of our popular dailies, the journalists are feeling the need of a new sensation to fill their papers with copy and their dinner pails with sandwiches. Fortunately, for them, the obliging American athletes contributed materially...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICAN IMPERIALISM | 3/26/1923 | See Source »

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