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Word: fewness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Continuing its effort of the last few years to eliminate the element of chance in gridiron contests, the national football rules committee announced yesterday that the chief result of a three-day secret session in Atlantic City was the adoption of a radical new rule making fumbled balls dead at...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREE FUMBLES RULED OUT BY COMMITTEE'S DECISION | 2/19/1929 | See Source »

Attack. For the first few days, Sir Joseph was constantly in the witness box. First salvo for the prosecution was Lawyer Miller's statement of intent: "We hope to show that Sir Joseph has built up an organization which is the finest of its kind in the world and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Duveen on da Vinci | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

If there is a norm in U. S. painting, it may best be studied at exhibitions of Manhattan's National Academy and Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Academy. These perennial shows are more famed for politeness than for pungency, for plethora than for power. There are always innumerable nice landscapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pennsylvania Academy | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Two minutes after the starting whistle had blown, E. T. Gerry '31 drove in the initial goal. G. O. Clark '31 followed up with another tally immediately afterward, and a Harvard pony kicked in the third score of the contest a few minutes later from a scrimmage in front of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLARK BROTHERS LEAD HARVARD TRIO TO WIN | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Ancient civilizations remind most of us at once of Egypt and Mesopotamia, and even in America there are few who realize the extent of the culture that was developed on our own continent before the Europeans arrived. One of the most interesting of these civilizations was that of the Mayas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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