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Word: devilled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glyphs has been hammered out within the past thirty years by arduous study of the inscriptions on monuments and of the texts of three Maya books, or "codiees," as the experts call them, which fortunately escaped the Spanish zeal for destroying what were considered "writings of the devil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Scientists Invade Yucatan Jungles to Wrest Secrets of Lost Mayan Civilization from Temple Ruins | 1/19/1926 | See Source »

...class of '89 made me a member. It was a beautiful and most welcome hospitality. It is renewing my youth; it takes 33 years off from my age and associates me with the healthy and vigorous maturity of the class of '89. Dr. Faust sold himself to the devil to gain the results, and the use he made of it sent him to Hell. But the inspiration and joy of camaraderie with the class of '89 is the full realization of the Yale spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Class of '56 | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

...over France. At these gatherings taxpaying voters protested fiercely against increased taxation and demanded instead the curtailment of Government expenses. 2) The party situation in the Chamber, which continued as a potpourri of recalcitrant "blocs," whose leaders appear to endorse the sentiment "every man for himself and the devil take the franc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Briand, Doumer & Co. | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

...Forbes, onetime Scotch printers devil, now editor of the financial bi-weekly which bears his name, penned many a hard word anent the late tobacco millionaire, James B. Duke, and published them in his latest issue a fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Forbes v. Duke | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...Michelman Joseph C.C. Wooley '29 First King Murray Pease '26 Second King D.W. Moreland '28 Third King F.K. Smith '29 First Messenger Charles Hicks '27 Second Messenger W.D. McKerrow '28 Herod D.L. Dickson '27 First Shepherd Charles Iseatherbee '29 Second Shepherd James Pales '28 Third Shepherd L.J. Schrelber '27 Devil D.F. Robinson '26 Second Angel Mary Caperton Third Angel Constance Templeton Fourth Angle Helen Goodrich Choristers M.M. Stevenson '28 A. D. Reter R.E. Smith '28 O.L. West...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STARCK GIVES REVIEW OF OLD MIRACLE PLAY | 12/17/1925 | See Source »

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