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Word: doltishness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1925-1925
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...doings of an unheard-of Princeton back named Prendergast, who-sent into the game in the last five minutes-carried the ball ten times (almost in succession), and gained 89 yards. But such statements could only be evasions. The salient feature of the Harvard-Princeton game was the doltish performance of the Harvard eleven. Score: Princeton 36, Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 16, 1925 | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

...brotherly love, ruling out the flesh and the devil. His hero is a young man who is both those Siamese twins of psychology, Dr. Coue and Dr. Frank Crane. The idealist returns from a year in Paris to his village and, finding his fiancee the wretched wife of a doltish sergeant, fulfills his philosophy by helping them to untangle the kinks in their jarring nervous systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Mar. 16, 1925 | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

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