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Word: faces (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach C. S. Heard '25 will also take his 150-pound oarsmen to Derby, Connecticut, this Saturday to face the Yale and Princeton light weights over the Henley distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CREWS LEAVE FOR TRIANGULAR RACE | 5/17/1928 | See Source »

...groups of warriors, protected by a barricade of fly-paper and yielding swatters with deadly effect. But the chief danger is to the Premier himself. So far he has managed to protect himself from would-be assassins, but no defense can save the man for whose blood a whole face of flying avengers will soon be thirsting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CAMPAIGNS OF CAESAR | 5/15/1928 | See Source »

...GOOD NEWS, FUNNY FACE, RAIN OR SHINE, MANHATTAN MARY, KEEP SHUFFLIN', PRESENT ARMS, SHOW BOAT, A CONNECTICUT YANKEE, THE THREE MUSKETEERS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...three new balls a set though she remembers the time when she was "delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce."-She once realized in a tournament that something was wrong, but did not discover until after the match that her opponent was left-handed.-Her "Poker Face" ("a point I have never before discussed") is due to concentration rather than, as popularly supposed, lack of emotion.-When they pinned the Phi Beta Kappa key over her fast-beating heart she experienced one of the happiest moments of her life.-All players who have turned professional she mentions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Poker Face | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...from this last post he traveled by way of America, Japan, India, collecting data for his latest book. Born in Russia, of French parents (1888), he was educated at Oxford, studied law and political science in Paris, is a prolific writer, notably of post-War character sketches. Sleek of face and hair, he looks still younger than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: East is East | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

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