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Word: devotedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The New Statesman devoted to "the obsolescent President" a full page editorial headed Pecksniffian Guff, and savagely said: "After years of sonorous silence, only punctuated now and then by the utterance of some discreet inanity, he suddenly delivered a sort of dying kick with a viciousness of which few people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: If they had our chance. . . . | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

The major portion of the afternoon was devoted to a demonstration of Yale plays, staged by the seconds under the tutuelage of Coach J. L. Knox '98, who has been scouting the Blue.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECONDS DEMONSTRATE BULLDOG'S FORMATIONS | 11/21/1928 | See Source »

There exists an association of parents ostensibly devoted to a regulation of debutante activities, but this year their sapient councils have ended in indecision. Being parents principally of debutantes they seem interested only in the ultimate tensile strength of the bond between body and soul in their daughters. The appeals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WHICH I KNOW YOU WILL NOT" | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

The workout was largely devoted to the development of an effective aerial attack. Different passing combinations were tried and worked with varying success, but no definite conclusions were reached by the coaches. The lineup which will face Hole Cross this week-end is still as problematical as it was after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HORWEEN DRIVES SQUAD IN FINAL SCRIMMAGE | 11/15/1928 | See Source »

Harvard is famous for the fact that her student body is the most indifferent and her alumni the most cohesive and enthusiastic band of persons to be met with in collegiate circles. This change takes place, at the earliest, after three years of absence from the Yard and it is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE TO GET READY | 11/15/1928 | See Source »

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