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Word: forgottenness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Midway in time between these two extremes, the ear has brought to Harvard a large collection of eighteenth century English fiction Some of these books have been "collector's items," additions to the shelves devoted to the outstanding literary lights, but by far the more important portion comprises long forgotten novels by equally un known authors, who were none the less the writers who in their own day supplied the reading matter for the larger part of the book buying public. The eighteenth century is the period of English literature where Harvard's position is challenged most dangerously by Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winship Reviews Recent Acquisitions Exhibited in Widener Treasure Room; Good Fortune Features Current Year | 6/18/1929 | See Source »

...forgotten that at inaugural President Hoover had recommended the transfer of Prohibition Enforcement from the Treasury to the Department of Justice.* Now he was prepared to pass the whole troublesome question to Congress for solution. With the Law Enforcement commission and the proposed congressional commission at work on the same subject, many an observer thought he saw a gradual stifling of Prohibition as an issue for political agitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...week, show that 347 out of 909 men in the present Senior Class are members of social clubs of one sort or another. The remaining 563 members of the class are not listed as belonging to any organization of the purely social variety. While a few men may have forgotten to include their clubs in the Album life blanks the number is not large. It is certain, at least, that the club membership of the graduating class is not less than the figure given above...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO-FIFTHS OF 1929 ARE CLUB MEMBERS | 6/11/1929 | See Source »

...Kresge's fortune has been variously estimated at from $100,000,000 to $150,000,000. Of his 511 stores, 364 are 5? & 10? 147 are 25? to $1. In 1028 they sold $147,465,448 worth of merchandise. Mr. Kresge, however, has not forgotten boyhood days on a Pennsylvania farm when he rose at 4:30 a. m. and worked till dark. His clothing is still inexpensive, and he will search long for a lost golf ball. He is a solid, round, quiet man except when he is aroused against the Big Demon Rum or the Little Devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kresge Glasses | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...ranks. Half of the student bodies at Harvard and Princeton has entered college since the rupture. It seems safe to say, therefore, that the number of obstructionists among them cannot be large, and that in the new college generation now beginning all record of the break will be forgotten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INERTIA | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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