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Word: familiarly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upper classes to the area below Mt. Auburn Street there is a logical argument for a reconsideration of the site of the new Chapel. What promises to be a new center of Harvard life is certainly a suitable setting for the memorial, and furthermore the inviolability of the Yard familiar to generations of past Harvard men would be preserved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SECOND YARD | 1/26/1929 | See Source »

...only in the special fields of history and of government, in which he is a most accomplished scholar, but also in the whole range of education, his influence has been profoundly felt. With many students at Harvard, who have read his numerous books, his name has become a familiar byword...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BEARD LECTURES | 1/26/1929 | See Source »

Thus, with a familiar and ironic boast began the last will and testament of Tex Rickard, famed fight promoter, dead of an operation for appendicitis. When it was read last week, it was discovered that Tex Rickard had left his estate, amounting to between one million and three million dollars, to his wife Maxine and to his daughter, Maxine Texas Rickard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rickard's Heirs | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...clipping from the editorial page of the New York Herald Tribune that appears in another column is an excellent criticism of a type of writing that magazine readers have grown familiar with in recent years. Colleges and college students have been diagnosed as suffering from one disease after another, and where commercialism is now the sword hanging over their heads it is not so many years since football overemphasis occupied the same position. Sensationalism when it deals with the universities becomes dignified to critical analysis and holds prominent position on the title pages of publications of the highest rank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIMELIGHT BLUES | 1/15/1929 | See Source »

That it is sensationalism seems to anyone at all familiar with the facts too obvious to need proof. The picture Mr. Pringle draws of the Yale man is only slightly less amusing to a Harvard undergraduate than the similar caricatures of himself that he may have been surprised to find are taken seriously by people who ought to know better. And yet it is a strange fact that while no one would believe such tales about clerks or office boys, for the collegian there are scarcely any bounds of credibility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIMELIGHT BLUES | 1/15/1929 | See Source »

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