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Word: eighteenth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Authentic scenery and production methods of the eighteenth century are reproduced. Footlights are lighted by torch and all the scene changes are made (in full view of the audience) by consumed stage hands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/16/1934 | See Source »

...latest theory brought forward by Professor Allen is that the sea-serpent mania comes as a direct result of the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. Another contributing cause may be the complexly of modern life which demands some from of psychological release from the worries of the N.R.A. Sea-serpents were never seen by the sailors on the clippers which sailed out of Salem in the old days. It takes warm spring weather and a brisk tourist service to develop really good monster crazes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEA-SERPENT VIEWED OFF FRENCH COAST SPECIES OF BOTTLE-NOSED WHALE | 3/14/1934 | See Source »

Barely leading at the end of the hundred, the Crimson captain forged ahead in the last two laps to build up a sizeable margin of victory. The win was Stowell's eighteenth consecutive victory in dual meets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STOWELL TAKES EVENT; HARVARD DOWNS F. & M. | 3/10/1934 | See Source »

...court has never ruled that the federal government is powerless to prohibit child labor directly, as the present child labor law would prohibit it. Mr. Smith's parallel with the sumptuary Eighteenth amendment is an unfortunate one. The fact is that the eighteenth amendment was passed, and only a national revolt at its philosophy forced its repeal. The eighteenth amendment could not have been passed if its exponents had placed their hopes on the taxing power, or the interstate commerce clause. Behind the present child labor law a very simple strategy is visible; the example of the eighteenth amendment indicated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 3/7/1934 | See Source »

...Italy in the Eighteenth Century," Professor La Piana, Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/1/1934 | See Source »

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