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Word: finality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trials last night. Due, however, to the unusually large turn-out for the debating team last Monday, it was found impossible to cut the squad to a small number at once. There will be at least two more sets of preliminary speeches delivered by the candidates before the final six debaters are chosen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 13 DEBATERS LEFT AFTER SECOND CUT | 10/14/1927 | See Source »

Next Tuesday worthy Cambridge voters--and that means many members of the Harvard Faculty--will go to the polls to select two of the sterling quartet, who will compete in the final election in November. Indications now point to the choice of Quinn and Russell at the primaries. That at least will mean a cessation of Robart torchlight parades, and of processions of small children chanting "Yea, yea, we want Shea!" Harvard Square will lapse into its customary quiet non-political atmosphere, and only the Faculty and the local students who have assumed the heavy burden of citizenship will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CANTAB CONVULSIONS | 10/13/1927 | See Source »

...arranging the details of the debate with Russell while in the cab, Dr. Durant displayed his fairness in stating. "No, I shall want no final rebuttal. If I were dealing with a rufflan, I should want one to lambaste my opponent, but I trust my friend, here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Durant and Russell Discuss Varied Aspects of Education | 10/13/1927 | See Source »

...years ago, M. Sensaud de Levaud, French inventor, knew this. Since then, he has been tampering, tinkering, planning, pondering and putting together bits of metal which in final form turn out to be a sensible automotive vehicle with no middle parts to fuss over at all. The motor transmits propulsive force directly to the rear end without intercession of transmission gears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shiftless Auto | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...highest score of early games was made by Temple (Philadelphia university of 6,000 students) which ripped Blue Ridge to ribbons, 110-0. Blue Ridge is a tiny Maryland institution; enrollment about 180, including girls. So hot was the Philadelphia afternoon that final periods were shortened to 5 minutes. Blue Ridge ran out of substitutes; borrowed three from Temple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football Matches: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

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