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Word: devotedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The north end of the lower room has been devoted entirely to stacks on which some of the valuable books are to be stored This section will be separated from the remainder of the study room by locked doors. Glass casings have been built over the shelves surrounding the open...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TREASURE ROOM IN WIDENER LIBRARY IS TO BE ENLARGED | 11/6/1929 | See Source »

An alumnus of Bowdoin College, he did post graduate work at Harvard, and started to teach. In 1908, however, he joined Commander Peary's Arctic expedition, and since then has devoted most of his time, with the exception of a few years, to explorative expeditions, including the MacMillan Expedition to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MACMILLAN SPEAKS HERE IN DECEMBER | 11/5/1929 | See Source »

It is rumored that over 100 men at Harvard, and 200 at Columbia, take anthropology courses and all are especially trained in making anthropometric tables. There are something over 500 institutions in this country devoted exclusively to the education of young ladies. Thus does science progress!

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Katie. "No one could have been more unselfish, more devoted. ... In the early years she took care of the children herself and did all her own washing, ironing and cooking. . . . She has always been head of the household and was christened by one of the children Chairman of the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Politics and Sprigs | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Since 1914, he has devoted a great deal of his time to writing, having published in Russian such books on Sociological subjects as "Crime and Punishment," in 1914; "Leo Tolstoi as a Philosopher," in 1915; "Problems of Social Equality;" "Elements of Sociology;" "Systems of Sociology;" in two volumes; and "Fundamental...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAMOUS RUSSIAN SOCIOLOGIST MAY COME TO HARVARD | 11/2/1929 | See Source »

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