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Word: finality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...procession came at last to a funeral pyre, high, mighty and well laid. Round it the hundred widows grouped themselves for a final chorus of wails and lamentations. Slowly, reverently all that remained of Monarch Sisowath was borne to the top of the pyre and there set down. In life he had been an amiable if do-nothing puppet of France. His pleasures were slumber, meditation and degustation. Fittingly and honorably he was borne away to Buddha, amid the swelling and sizzling of mercury, and the sweet stench of aromatics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Pickled & Burned | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

Victoriana. Her Majesty never possessed higher or more passionate epistolary powers than at the period covered by these letters (1879-1885).* Slashingly she underlines whole sentences and underscores two or three times her more emphatic phrases. The grand themes are first her grief at the political eclipse and final death of Benjamin Disraeli, "dear Lord Beaconsfield;" and secondly her rage at William Ewart Gladstone whom she would certainly have called a Bolshevik had the word then been invented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS ABROAD: Lusty Letters | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...compete for the News and Photographic departments, it will be for a nine weeks competition broken up by the spring recess. Sophomores trying out for the Editorial department will compete for the same length of time. The competition will end early enough to allow ample time for study before final examinations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON SUMMONS 1930 AND 1931 MONDAY NIGHT | 3/17/1928 | See Source »

...three competitions will be of nine weeks duration, excluding the spring vacation. The work is planned to come to an end in time to leave a few days before the beginning of the final examination period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON OPENS THREE COMPETITIONS MONDAY | 3/15/1928 | See Source »

Announcement was made last night of the plans for the Phillips Brooks House Association final meetings and banquet, by M. A. Cheek '26, graduate secretary. All members of the organization and men who have worked in the various fields of service will be present at this annual meetings which is to be held on Tuesday evening, April 3, at 6.45 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNUAL P. B. H. BANQUET IS ANNOUNCED FOR APRIL 3 | 3/14/1928 | See Source »

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