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Word: filles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courses that fill this need are necessary tedious. The classics are tasted but any attention to literary values must wait on the stumbling paraphrases of the classroom. Better known than these slightly musty process are the writers increasingly read in this country men like Proust and Hampton and Thomas Mann. With the expenditure of some labor elementary knowledge does not preclude the enjoyment of these writers. And well disciplined intelligent individual study in line with all modern tendencies promises more of permanence and adhered to yields as much at the moment as grammatical boredom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOLIERE MOLE8 | 11/8/1928 | See Source »

...around. In the event of a Hoover landslide, the Democrats might lose not only the Presidency but a Senate seat each in four States where they now have both seats. In Montana, Senator Wheeler might get ousted; in Tennessee, Senator McKellar. In Missouri, Democrat Charles M. Hay, slated to fill the seat of fierce retiring-Senator James A. ("Jim") Reed, might lose to Republican R. C. Patterson. In New York, Senator Dr. Royal S. Copeland (red carnation in buttonhole) might be ousted by Nominee the Hon. Alanson Bigelow Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Socialism! | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Grouse and Partridge flourish in most U. S. woods, which they fill with the muffled thunder of their wings. Grousing is the especial sport of certain writers, notably W. O. McGeehan who is eager to investigate the woods of Pennsylvania in company of Damon Runyon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horns & Huntsmen | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...Harvard Republicans are tentatively planning to organize their body first in Cambridge, marching around the Yard and College buildings to pick up their constituency. Arrangements are at present being made to transport the Republicans to Boston on a large scale following this exhibition. Torch lights and flares will naturally fill a prominent position in the march...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD REPUBLICANS WILL MARCH IN PARADE | 10/30/1928 | See Source »

...resumption of football relations between Harvard and Brown comes, fortunately, not late enough to require projection into a season more distant than 1929. The University's schedule still contains one or two open dates, necessarily in the early autumn; and the possibility of inviting the Providence team to fill one of them still exists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWN-HARVARD | 10/26/1928 | See Source »

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