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Word: exceptional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago Cabby Hartmann, who once owned a prosperous livery stable, found himself and wife reduced to penury and possessed of no business capital except a 35-year-old cab and Grassmus, his 13-year-old nag. Desperate, "Iron Gustav" resolved to recoup his fortunes by setting out for Paris, a 665-mile drive, selling postcards to the curious along the way, and displaying a sign which read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: Iron Gustav | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...Freshman and Combination outfits also practiced in the afternoon rowing down over the two mile stretch again. The trip, however, was made in stretches, and Coach H. H. Haines had his oarsmen keep the stroke low except for a number of trial racing starts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE HARVARD CREWS HAVE LIGHT WORKOUT | 6/16/1928 | See Source »

...club as a social factor. The club that is little more than a dining place has come into being. The rising tide of study, symbolized in such ninth wave as the interest in the English literature contest and the success of the Reading Period, has overwhelmed the playboy except in that brief period between September and October of the Freshman year and club life in the old people, has largely disappeared when it threatened to take the time of the one outside activity that most men are able to sustain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TIGER'S CLUBS | 6/15/1928 | See Source »

...schools. It is no wonder that little class spirit or even class consciousness exists in the student body as a whole. Even in the school of arts there was so little cohesion among the more than 300 seniors that all the traditional Class Day features had to be abandoned except the senior prom. Only twenty seniors had shown themselves sufficiently interested to buy tickets to the Class Day exercises as planned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 6/12/1928 | See Source »

...crude camp fare, but finds instead all the comforts of home-roaring fires, fine books, kindly serving maids. At dinner appears the snivelling prince, captive too, to be tortured with the display of beauty that might have been his, but is now allotted to the bandit's delectation. Except by way of torturing the prince, di Bari's intentions are, however, honorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hollywood Bound | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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