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Word: desiree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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We desire, as business men, to draw attention to certain grave and disquieting conditions which, in our judgment, are retarding the return to prosperity. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Roundest Robin | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

In Manhattan, a Bach choral prelude and Brahms's C minor symphony issued in rapturous perfection from the gloom of old Carnegie Hall. Even a tone poem about a Prophet, in phrases and measures twisted to tortuous futurity by one Ernest Pingoud, 26-year-old Swiss with a Russian upbringing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ave | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

In April, 1814, the Corporation was informed that a gentleman whose name was not to be mentioned had appropriated $20,000 to found in Harvard University a Professorship of Greek Language and Literature; and that the desire of the donor was not to be known or named as its founder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professorships Perpetuate Memory of Founders Two Hundred Years Ago | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

The CRIMSON is pleased to know that President Lowell appreciates the attempt now being made through an essay contest to suggest some remedy for prevailing food conditions at Harvard. Too often such endeavors fail because of their flippant reception. The letter from President Lowell, printed today in the CRIMSON, shows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESIDENT'S LETTER | 10/26/1926 | See Source »

The reason for the increase is only to be surmised; the candidates are, one may presume, neither better nor worse than those of former years; there is, outside of the possibility to a wet-dry conflict, no national issue; and there is no violent extreme of either great prosperity or...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RENAISSANCE OF THE BALLOT | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

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