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Word: desiree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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An egg rebellion has broken out in Smith Hall. After two long weeks of breakfast at which boiled eggs have alternated with boiled eggs on the daily menu, the Freshmen in that dormitory have risen in wrath. During luncheon yesterday some doughty leader of the crusade tacked on the bulletin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eggs Are Unpopular in Smith Halls; Proctors Put Down Rebellion but Ringleaders Still Hope for Hash or Fish | 10/11/1923 | See Source »

Secretary Hughes took as his theme the waste of national energy and the duty of American universities to develop a desire for serenity, reflection, sobriety of reason, and calmness of judgment, saying: "To the extent that the University merely reproduces the rush, the hustle, and the rapid give and take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUGHES PLEADS FOR SERENITY OF THOUGHT | 10/11/1923 | See Source »

When Sunday came along, some 15,000 secessionists assembled in Düsseldorf for their mass meeting. At the same time Communists held a counter meeting. Order was maintained during the procession that was formed, and then Dr. Josef Matthes began his speech: " The Separatists are animated by hatred toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bloody Sunday | 10/8/1923 | See Source »

To those who have felt that France entered the Ruhr in part at least because of her desire for security, the idea of a separate state will appeal at first sight as perhaps a good substitute for Marshal Foch's famous "left bank of the Rhine." To those, on the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RHINELAND AND REICHS | 10/3/1923 | See Source »

On the morning of the eclipse, faint clouds may have spoiled some of the Einstein plates. A far more serious difficulty was encountered in the Indians who at first were determined to prevent the observations, thinking them some sort of a religious rite which might offend the native rain god...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN VIEW SUN ECLIPSE ON EXPEDITION | 10/2/1923 | See Source »

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