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Word: discoverable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the University's close listedness still remains a generally accepted truth, it is something of a relief to discover that the wage scale for Yale's biddies is lower than Harvard's. Apparently, two of America's most reputable educational institutions are fighting neck and neck for the "honor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEAT YALE | 4/29/1930 | See Source »

Uncle Vanya. One sure way of cementing a friendship is to discover that you and your acquaintance are both devoted readers of the works of the late Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, that you have, both covered the 350-odd short stories, the six full-length plays. Of the six, four have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 28, 1930 | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

When, on Tuesday morning, the stockholders entered the dim, musty assembly room of the Dollar Savings Bank Building, the issue seemed entirely clear. As old Chairman James A. Campbell took his seat under the faded portraits of Youngstown bankers long dead, it only remained to count the votes to discover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Steel War (cont.) | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

Mark Twain was of course the first good-humoured Vagabond, and so his lineal descendent may perhaps be pardoned for being a bit partial to him. Therefore he is quite sorry for anyone who has missed Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn from his cradle side, and almost as regretful over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/17/1930 | See Source »

There are disadvantages, of course, to the teaching profession, which the writer makes plain. Professors almost invariably, he says, are inflicted with a kind of inferiority complex due to the fact that a great majority of their students, or their students families are richer than they. Also many young men...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Says Who? | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

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