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Word: doned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following a two year respite from football during the World War it took hard drilling to whip a team into shape for the 1919 season. But it was done, and the team, composed mostly of returned soldiers, came out of the Yale game 10 to 3 victor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale Football Series a History of Two Waves of Victory | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

...What we want to be sure of," cried Lord Grey, "is that the Government has instructed the Admiralty that in drawing up the program of British naval requirements it should not take the United States fleet into account. Previous British Governments have never done that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament Opened | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Though a roar of approval went up, Herr Scheidemann attached to it so little importance that he soon went back to his bowl of soup. He did not realize what he had done until jovial Freidrich Ebert, later first President of the Republic, rushed in flushed with indignation and exclaimed: "What have you done? I hear you have proclaimed a Republic! Don't you know you had no right to do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Accidentally a Republic | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...Bonfils: "That [burial] has now been done for the benefit of the subscriber and of the advertiser, tending to create in our beloved section a better newspaper feeling and co-operation . . . making this a better and a more wholesome country in which to live, rear our families and transact our business. . . . These two papers are going to try to deserve the respect and friendship of each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In Denver | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...late Dr. Joseph D. Bryant (Cleveland's medical attendant and intimate friend) cut out the diseased bone during two operations. An artificial jaw of vulcanized rubber supported the cheek in the natural position and prevented it from falling in. So artful were the operations and so secretly done that the country, panicky over money, knew nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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