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Word: dinners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dinner affords the guests opportunity to discuss means of co-operation for the furthering of the physical education of undergraduates. W. J. Bingham '16, director of athletics, declared Saturday that the banquets in the past have contributed materially to progress toward athletics and proper physical training for the whole student body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETIC COMMITTEE TO BANQUET ADMINISTRATORS | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...Dinner" is at 6-more bran toast; dictating or studying stops at 9; and so to bed. Mr. Chief Justice is not one of those septuagenarians who boast how little sleep they need. Nor does he "run upstairs." He does, however, operate his own elevator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Supreme | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Sons-in-law are incessantly reported vexed about their mothers-in-law. But rarely are they reported trying to poison them. Even in Abyssinia, small country in the northeast of Africa, where it is easy to poison people because they take so much red pepper at dinner that they can taste nothing else, sons-in-law have rarely been reported trying to poison their mothers-in-law. But last fortnight, an Abyssinian actually was accused of wanting to poison his Abyssinian mother-in-law. Further, he was accused of having succeeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABYSSINIA: Poisoned Mother-in-law | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...side, across and down the west side" of the Green Mountains. They saw how last year's flood destruction had been repaired. They stayed a night at Calvin Coolidge's 275-acre farm at Plymouth Notch. Housekeeper Aurora Pearce was ready for them with a fried chicken dinner and Presidential applesauce. Calvin Coolidge inspected his house from cellar to roof tree; also the barn, the hay rick, the new silo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: My Fellow Vermonters. . . . | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...Here one dashes into a cafeteria and dashes out again with as little delay as possible; there, even when eating at college, we take a great deal of time. Most entertaining comes at meal time and a lunch invitation may easily last from noon till tea time, while a dinner invitation always takes from 7 until 12 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAUD DESCANTS ON HARVARD AND U. S. | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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