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Word: fair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a leisurely and poetic thoroughness about the piece which should recommend it to many. There is a fair performance by Ruth Chatterton, a good one by Ralph Forbes and an extraordinarily fine one by Robert Loraine, seasoned and admirable English actor who is too seldom lured to our actor-thin theatre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Nov. 9, 1925 | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

...have been asked recently what kind of comments my essays and predictions have evoked from the ever-expectant public. From the great pile of letters I receive each Monday, I select the one below as typical. It was written by one of the many fair fanettes among my readers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BY JOE FORECAST '26 | 11/7/1925 | See Source »

...youth now enters college in search of pleasure and finds it, it is absurd to assert that as the sole motive the going to college--even in this pleasure-loving age. Neither the older nor the younger generation could be so unanimous in a single motive. Both, it seems fair to say, were prepared to absorb as much academic and worldly wisdom as came their way. Neither was averse to a good time. The greatest difference is in the tense of the verb with which you describe fathers and sons: one got it, the other is getting it. The truth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHEN FATHERS WERE SONS | 11/7/1925 | See Source »

...March Sousa Football Songs Harvard Banjo Club Princeton Glee club Kammenoi-Ostrow Polla My Sweetic Turned Me Down Green Harvard Gold Coast Orchestra Thousand and One Nights Waltz Strauss Harvard Mandelin Club Drake's Drum Coleridge-Taylor Football Songs Harvard Glee Club Old Nassan Princeton Glee Club. Fair Harvard Harvard Glee Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSICAL CLUBS UNITE WITH PRINCETON IN JOINT CONCERT | 11/6/1925 | See Source »

...last the system long advocated by H. R. Coffin '94, whereby the number of plays rather than minutes determine the length of a football game, is to receive a fair trial. Next Saturday when the Brown eleven meets Boston University at Providence, the teams will play periods consisting of 40 plays each instead of lasting 15 minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWN-B. U. GAME TO HAVE PERIODS OF 40 PLAYS EACH | 11/4/1925 | See Source »

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