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Word: eves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...army into the field to debate the qualifications of the two major presidential candidates, treason is found at the very heart of the home garrison. Even the modest veiling with a dash is insufficient to conceal the glaring weakness of undergraduate support tendered the Yale men on the eve of battle. Those who know the real story behind the debaters appearances tonight, will have trouble in back the emotion sure to be evoked by this latest "Laugh Clown" drama. The home fires are burning vigorously enough but with the unwholesome green flame of dissension...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AGE CANNOT WITHER | 11/1/1928 | See Source »

...National W. C. T. U. last week issued a call to prayer, an hour of prayer, on Nov. 5, election eve. "Great issues are at stake and there is need for prayer for Divine guidance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: W. C. T. U. | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...Indiana issued a call-to-prayer on the eve of the Houston convention. That call said: "Get Down On Your Knees And Pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: W. C. T. U. | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...this rushing to and fro by the fiscal heads of. Europe arose a popular impression that sweeping action would be taken at once. At the very least it seemed that the lukewarmness of Chancellor Churchill had been transformed into eager cooperation. Perhaps the Great Powers were on the eve of formally consummating the project first dreamed at Thoiry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Readjusting Reparations | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Skeleton plot: a college youth, on the eve of marriage, is informed that one of his old extra-campus acquaintances has given birth to a child of which he is the father. He therefore proposes marriage to the brat's mother who impudently refuses, preferring to study art in Paris. The youth discovers his child in a foundling hospital and steals it; he is pursued by the daughter of a boardinghouse keeper and also by his fiancee. Too soon, it seemed to the audience, weary of their company, Norman Overbeck made amends with his original flame and they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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