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Word: desiree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Void of purpose, just stewing frantically with the selfish desire to marry Sondra, the boy's mind involuntarily evolves, his hand spasmodically executes, the murder of Roberta. He bashes her with a camera, capsizes their canoe.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: U. S. Tragedy | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

"Why should crime be said to be rampant in our country any more than the rest of the world," he went on. "Crime will have its run after any war, when a departure from normalcy is in order. This last war was a world disturbance and will naturally be followed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAYS "CRIME WAVE" TO LOVE OF LEGISLATION | 1/23/1926 | See Source »

"It is to counteract this insidious propaganda that this patriotic journal would take these young men west and exhibit them as an offset to the cheap jeers and unintelligent opposition' which characterize pacifist procedure." Thus it is evident that at least two prominent American journals see in a "boast of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPARTA, ILLINOIS | 1/23/1926 | See Source »

The tutorial system, differing from the existing plan in other branches of the College, in that every member of the department will serve as tutor in addition to his duties of instruction, will be adopted by the Division of Mathematics, it was announced yesterday by the University Office. The new...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mathematics Department Adopts Tutorial System in New Form | 1/22/1926 | See Source »

It is greatly to be doubted whether the accepted view has not seriously overrated the value of college to the man whose life is to be spent in the ordinary channels of industry and commerce. A recent report on college graduates as railway executives declared as much. The News has...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE AND THE BUSINESS LIFE | 1/21/1926 | See Source »

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