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Word: doers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Work was of the most informal variety, as members of the ski team came and went working a couple of doer of a time of a compile of weeks at a time. Beginning at the end of August, there was work being done continuously until last week when the finishing touches were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers Build Hut In Preparing for Winter Activities | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

...call "experience." You condone one type of action--"first-hand experience" without taking sides. But this is little more than observation, less valuable than what the educators call "learning through doing." Secondly, the Harvard Student Union hopes to give the student a place of some small importance as a doer, as well as an absorber; in doing this, it hopes to contribute to the practical advancement of the aims for which it stands, as well as to the development of the individual. This cannot be done without the "action" you deplore. Finally, what the Crimson itself speaks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/19/1938 | See Source »

...aggressive forward wall and a highly touted backfield. In the opening period Captain Clint Frank will run like a doer and he will pass with deadly accuracy in the final minutes. Between the halves he will exhort his team-mates to greater heights...

Author: By Morgan O. Preston, | Title: Cliche Expert In Milk Street Interview Claims Harvard or Yale May Win | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

Particular emphasis will be paid to those works frequently read in class, but not often heard. Mr. Dietz plans to interpret various classicists, including Schiller, go the, Wildenbruch, and German translations from Shakespeare. He may also do "Sein doer nicht Sein, Das ist die Frage," which has had great success on the English and American stage, under Mr. Dietz' handling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Paul Dietz Presents Selected German Readings Tonight Under Auspices of Schurz Foundation | 12/4/1935 | See Source »

Thus to mankind who always love a doer of great deeds. Franklin Roosevelt showed himself in the figure of a Hercules striving to perform immense but modern labors, of a hero who in the U. S. tradition does all his labors on a neighborly basis. He himself expressed as nearly as it is likely to be expressed, the result of this attitude, the reason for the vote of Nov. 6 when he declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man of the Year, 1934 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

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