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Word: facings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the new building under way two alternatives face the authorities, either the procuring of the needed $300,000 on short order from alumni or friends of the College or the substitution of a temporary roof for the fourth floor and its proposed basketball courts until a more favorable day. In case of the latter event, the University would at least have its much-needed swimming pool and the other two floors would relieve Hemenway sufficiently to be a blessing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STEVE TOOK A CHANCE | 12/21/1928 | See Source »

...last, eager to see what this horrible sinner could look like, staggering, moaning, the congregation filed forward. Each man and woman peered. The casket was empty. A mirror in the bottom reflected the face of the person who stared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God's Trombone | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

Conduct a concentrated survey of all the moral problems which meet and face the modern church and of the ways in which it has so far shown itself inadequate to face them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Federal Council | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...stripling all a-blubber, trying to warm his back against the outside of a stockyard store. Reporters nagged him. Muttered he: "Dick's so gentle he wouldn't hurt anybody. But he knew me best, and every time I went near him he tried to lick my face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Live Stock Show | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...public-the contralto part in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony-earned $6 that bought a second-hand canary cage and the first white curtains that the Rosslers ever had. In Vienna young Ernestine, nearly grown up, tried first for opera but the director said "Mein Gott, what a face!" suggested a sewing machine. Only the roughneck father was glad. His Tini should have a decent career. But she fooled him, went to Dresden, brought back a contract signed by the King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tini's Life | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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