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Word: exactions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full term while the opening Monday battle became known as the "Bloody Monday" greeting to the freshies by the sophs. It was all that the name implied, and it carried on until abolished by faculty edict sometime after the turn of the present century, in 1917; to be exact. While, as a participant during my college days, I can see some merit to the faculty's attitude, I can, however, assure you that the passing of "Bloody Monday" took away a something that used to knit the freshmen together as a unit, and it did it at the very start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football, as an Organized Sport, Ceased to Form Initiation Battle for Freshmen, Knox Explains | 11/13/1935 | See Source »

Today can well be observed as the birthday of John Harvard, although the exact date is unknown. His christening took place on November 29, 1607, and the birthday can only be approximated as being near that date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONANT PRESIDES AT TERCENTENARY MEETING TONIGHT | 11/8/1935 | See Source »

...most exact planning. But your plans may be unrealizable because the laws of society, institutions and authority oppose them. I believe that planning is putting Authority's back to the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Corbusierismus | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...exact subject of Professor Langer's speech has yet to be announced, but will presumably be drawn either from his personal experience during the War or from the wealth of research work he has done in modern European history, the subject covered in his famous course, History...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HANFORD, LANGER TO HEAD MEETING TO SPONSOR PEACE | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...catching them when they needed money, he contracted with Playwrights Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur to write a libretto on which he could string his circus acts, stars and tunes. Messrs. Hecht & MacArthur repaired for a fortnight last winter to Suite No. 21, Villa Marguerita, Charleston, S. C., the exact spot where they turned out their memorable Front Page and 20th Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Mad Mahout | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

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