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Word: faste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he read this telegram, Marshal Pilsudski, Dictator, Premier, War Minister and national hero, sprang up, touched, flattered, to telephone the aged General Buchopicki full permission to die with the consent of his old commander. Telephone operators plugged fast at the sound of Marshal Pilsudski's imperative roar, the call went through instantly, a nurse answered. Said she:"General Buchopicki is dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Flattery | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...light grey, etc. On the telegravure typewriters and linotype machines are corresponding characters-big D dots, tiny A dots, etc. A series of code phrases describes a picture line by line horizontally. For example, a line across the forehead in a portrait of George Washington might read "D7B3A6B4C2D8." A fast typer can compose a 3 x 2 in telegraving in ten minutes. The picture is "retouched" by reading its proof, correcting typographical errors. The finished block of type-dots is ready to print without further processing. ... Journalists on their way to newspaperdom's annual gathering in Manhattan looked forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Telegravure | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...impossible to set down hard and fast rules as to what is good and what is bad. Morality is wisdom, and wisdony changes with the times. The English, system, as outlined by Cosmo Hamilton in yesterday's CRIMSON by which one man censors all manuscripts before the plays are produced would not only be impractical in New York, but it is doubtful even whether it would be the most satisfactory method. In the first place, I believe it is wrong to censor a play before it is produced, for in this way, some new yet valuable idea, might be killed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRODUCER OF "IOLANTHE" ENDORSES CENSORSHIP | 4/16/1927 | See Source »

Over 170 additions have been made since December 9, 1926, to the fast-growing list of books written by Harvard men, it became known in a list published in the current number of the Alumni Bulletin. The oldest alumnus to publish a work was Judge Robert Grand '73, with his "Occasional Verses". The oungest alumnus was Montgomery Major '25 with a volume of children's stories entitled "Merry Christmas Stories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW ADDITIONS SWELL LIST OF VOLUMES BY HARVARD WRITERS | 4/15/1927 | See Source »

...second period the strain of the fast play began to show on the graduate team and the play centered around its own goal. R. F. Murphy '27 scored the third goal for the University stickmen and then C. P. McQuaid '23 running half the length of the field made a fast shot to the ropes which the goalguard was unable to intercept. The Alumni's single point came when William Babson '25, skirted the University's defense men unnoticed and, taking a long pass, evaded G. A. Weller '29, the University goal, to score. In the closing minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LACROSSE TEAM TAKES MATCH FROM ALUMNI | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

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