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Word: ever (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been the custom heretofore for the college marshals in torchlight processions to go on horseback but as only one of the nine marshals of the upperclasses has ever ridden a horse, this part of the ceremony will be omitted this fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT and RUMOUR | 11/25/1938 | See Source »

President Eliot has just been made the subject of a very undignified practical joke by some unknown person. Engraved cards of invitation to his house for today were sent out in his name. The style of the cards is unlike any he ever had, and the date is written in ink. In addition to this an advertisement stating that he desired to engage a servant girl was inserted in several Boston papers. The result of this is that he had forty or fifty applicants. He sent to the Boston newspapers on Saturday the following statement: President Eliot desires to have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT and RUMOUR | 11/25/1938 | See Source »

...believe that the British colonies could support 200,000 or even 100,000 Europeans," he concluded. "Yet, there is always a chance of building a great economic system in the wilderness under adverse conditions. Nothing like this has ever been done before and it would be an experiment needing large capital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Whittlesey Doubts African Plan for Refugees | 11/25/1938 | See Source »

...Cancer has a bigger subterranean reputation than any recent book, based partly on the extravagant praise of critics like T. S. Eliot, partly on the difficulty of buying smuggled copies, but mostly because it is a low book, "the lowest book," in the words of Edmund Wilson, "I can ever remember to have read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dithyrambic Sex | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Coach Carr's well coached eleven definitely proved that they were the strongest soccer contingent in the North east in the victory ever Yale. The most outstanding characteristic of the team was that each position from the goal to the forward line was filled by strong men who cooperated effectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOTERS BEAT ELI 2-1; END SEASON UNDEFEATED | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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