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Word: fared (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supplement to commons and offered for sale to students, at a moderate advance on the cost, wines, liquors, groceries, stationery, and, in general, such articles as it was necessary and proper for them to have occasionally, and which, for the most part, were not included in the commons' fare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Liquors Were Once Dispensed to Student Body From Harvard Hall--Revolutionary Soldiers Looted Roof for Lead in 1776 | 3/26/1927 | See Source »

...Affairs.6 He starts with such elementals as that "Balkans" was originally a Turkish word meaning simply "mountains"; and then proceeds to untangle the Balkan post-War skein. His major prophecy is the gradual supplanting of France by Italy as the chief European force in the Balkans. With such heavy fare the reader should take a fluffy, gorgeously illustrated Balkan trave17 book by a U. S. artist who opens with the premise "All travelers are liars!" and proceeds to lie, erotically but suavely, about his adventures on tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: World Philosophizing | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...loss to decide where to turn for his sustenance, which part of the goodly array spread before him to tackle first. So it is with the Vagabond this Wednesday morning. Wandering at will in the vast intellectual cafeteria that is Harvard, he finds that the day's fare is so plentiful and so temptingly varied, that he is quite appalled at the prospect of choosing the lectures to serve as his daily morsels of mental delecation. In such sore doubt himself, it is with trepidation that he undertakes the perilous task of scanning the menu for the entertainment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 3/9/1927 | See Source »

...Subway fare: old men @ 5? daily .... 2.10 Subway fare: old women @ 5c daily 1.40 Expenses of flappers @ $2 daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 21, 1927 | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...vary its own fare, the World hired one Maurine Watkins, author of a play about murder-lust in Chicago's stockyard district, to write a delectable tidbit pretending to scorn Mrs. Browning because she had gone to court instead of killing Mr. Browning. The World's introduction : "... To become famous in Chicago the woman kills and kills and kills. Miss Watkins, investigating scientifically the road to fame in our own fair city, gives her conclusions below." Some conclusions : "In Chicago, you must shoot, not sue, your way to glory. Her front pages drip with blood, whereas New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Orgy | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

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