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Word: desiree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having inspected the Spanish land defenses, General Primo Rivera retired to the battleship Alfonso XIII, in Alhucemas Bay; and from thence issued peans of praise, in honor of General Saro and Fernandez Perez, who commanded the actual Spanish advance. Cried Primo, triumphant: "From now on there will be much war...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The War in Morocco | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

Every fall now, we as a country, go college-mad. We call it the football craze, but nobody who has the slightest knowledge of mob psychology can underestimate the enormous impetus college wards that the absorption in football is giving the youth of America. It is impossible to think of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/1/1925 | See Source »

If our college presidents are really in earnest in their desire to reduce the popularity of their institutions we suggest they got together and substitute some form of intellectual exercise for football as the hallmark of undergraduate activity. Judge

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/1/1925 | See Source »

His chief desire, poor man, is to make a good impression. Poorly paid, he hints at his rich friends; insignificant, he talks of the great; uneducated, he prattles of Shakespeare and quotes frightful Latin. Such men invariably fool some people; although he disgusts Mrs. Fisher (Helen Lowell) he wins the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 9/30/1925 | See Source »

So widespread has been the comment occasioned by the CRIMSON's experiment that, in order, to focus attention upon the more important criticisms of it within the University, the CRIMSON proposes to amend its ruling on signed communications. Anonymous letters will in no case be published. But students who wish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE COMMENTS AND CRITICISM | 9/30/1925 | See Source »

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