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Word: doned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many a mine. They unanimously endorsed demands drawn up by the I. W. W. including: a) restoration of the Jacksonville minimum wage; b) recognition of the miners' state committee; c) recognition of the miners' agents at mine tripples to check coal weighing (to ensure fair pay for digging done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wobbling | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...suit be dismissed, he said, for Illinois had done nothing illegal. The water diversion permit, which expires at the end of 1929, was properly issued by the Secretary of War who had been properly empowered by Congress, with which lies ultimate authority over national domain and waterways. Should Illinois overstep her legal permit, let the Great Lakes States then sue again. Before the permit expires and necessitates a fight in Congress, let Chicago perfect its water-purification so that diversion can be dispensed with; or let weirs be built in the Niagara and St. Glair Rivers to compensate the lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Illinois Upheld | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...always the opportunity of becoming acquainted with a professor's ideas on a subject, in themselves of value, and the possibility of acquaintance with subjects that a student could not otherwise obtain by merely keeping to his prescribed courses. Doing the thing that doesn't have to be done is usually an additional incentive. Finally, if one finds himself in the course of his vagabonding uninterested in something which he had hoped would prove of interest, there is nothing to prevent him from giving something else a try. --Bowdoin Orient...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vagabonding. | 12/3/1927 | See Source »

...advanced Romance literature courses, which employ the lecture method, many professors are planning to outline the material to be studied during the respite, and will leave the students the task of filling in the details from reading done in accordance with a prepared bibliography. This outline will in most cases be a rapid survey of the period in the lectures of the week preceding the Reading Period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIELD OF ROMANCE TONGUES ADAPTED TO READING PERIOD | 12/1/1927 | See Source »

Ballots for the Junior election will be in the mails today, and must be returned before December 11, it was announced last evening by Clark. Voting will be done on the preferential system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE NOMINEES LISTED ON SOPHOMORE BALLOT | 11/30/1927 | See Source »

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