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Word: devotedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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To the mind of the layman the subject of public ownership recalls to memory the Muscle Shoals controversy, Governor Smith's long and ardent battle for state control of various water power resources in New York, and the charges current last year that university professors were being privately paid on...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIBERAL CLUB PRESENTS | 2/19/1929 | See Source »

The blank cartridge that starts on its course another of the infinite relay of plans for good is fired by the correspondent whose letter suggests the foundation of a Peace Museum. The institute so built might surely offer its gallery of portraits and memorials as a Mecca to a peaceful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CANNED GOOD WILL | 2/16/1929 | See Source »

Appearing in an exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library are a number of books which constitute part of an important gift to the Harvard College Library. The gift, which was made by Phillip Hofer '21 of Cleveland, Ohio, comprises about 600 volumes illustrative of the art of printing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS and CRITIQUES | 2/16/1929 | See Source »

Freshmen, of course, will learn a more simplified version and will discover the manly art of saying just enough. Upperclassmen will be encouraged to give free rein to the oarsmen and to check them up when frenzy conquers rythm. Although the complete course is not known, it is rumored that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prospective Coxswains to Gain Steersman's Lingo Seasoned With Billinsgate--Special Course Given to Aid Vocabulary | 2/16/1929 | See Source »

The Pair of Stories.?The popular im pression that Norwegian nature is a monotone in its cold indifference Ibsen somewhat dispelled by his twin studies of the two Norwegian extremes: Peer Gynt, shiftless, debonair; and Brandt, steadfast, bitterly serious-minded. To dispel another popular impression?that the Vikings were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vikings on Land | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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