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Word: deservedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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In the winter of 1927, with the approaching promotion of the late Director to the rank of emeritus, it was felt that the time had come when modernization of the Museum, and its rearrangement into the still greater teaching implement, which the Division had long deserved, should at last be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Director of Peabody Museum Maps His Reorganization Campaign | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

When a newspaper distinguishes itself not merely by asserting its supremacy the first time, but also by justifying its ownership of the cup during two successive years, it offers an unusual challenge to rival publications in the same class. To the staff of the Choate News are accorded the heartiest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AGAIN THE WINNER | 1/23/1929 | See Source »

Just as no man would ask special praise for not stealing a chicken, so no Congress man asked a moral accolade for support of the Fenn Bill. Nevertheless, there were, by comparison, some who deserved honor. Thus, honor went to the entire New York delegation for voting for the Fenn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Stolen Seats | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

Would it not be a great blessing to allow the Junior Prom quietly and unmolestedly to join the Dodo, who has for many years been waiting to receive the aimiable Freak-Dance of the college? A resort to the oxygen of a bedizened ballroom and the hypodermic of exciting music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Lift Her Up Tenderly" | 1/16/1929 | See Source »

The Father. "Newspapers, as such, hardly deserved the name until this impertinent Scotchman came along. . . .' Before he founded the New York Herald in 1835 as a penny daily, newspapers were essentially windy political and personal organs. James Gordon Bennett gave the public hot news: the first stock table, Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father & Son | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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