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Word: franklin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Huntington wants to read Chaucer in the evening, he can take down the original manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, in Chaucer's spidery, faded, careful hand, manuscript said to be the most valuable in the world. He owns the original manuscript of the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin "from the ink splash on page 71, to the day before his death." In 1911 he paid a million dollars for three Gainsboroughs. His Gutenberg Bible (often mistaken for the famed copy from the library of Cardinal Mazarin*) is worth $50,000; he has on his shelf the first edition of Venus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Maecenas | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...Franklin, N. C., one Harry Sorelle, driver of an ox team, fell out of his wagon, held on to the lines, was dragged down a dirt road. Dust sprayed from the rapid hoofs of the oxen, rose from his body in a cloud, filled his nose, mouth, eyes, throat. He dropped the lines, lay gasping in the road for a moment, then, after a terrible convulsion, stopped breathing. The coroner reported death by smothering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Prisoner | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...Army 51, Franklin and Marshall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEERLESS PROGNOSTICATOR PICKS YALE TO WIN GAME | 11/6/1926 | See Source »

Much might be said about the mob spirit, the cry of the pack, the psychology of crowds in general and in Harvard Square--but even journalists believe with Franklin that collective banging surpasses individual endeavor along that line. So it is with they utmost sincerity that the CRIMSON commends these students from beyond Central Square who wantoned in the evening hours of Thursday. Only by such little get-togethers can the calm, peaceful placidity of Harvard Square assume truly collegiate proportions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THESE ENGINEERS | 11/6/1926 | See Source »

Among the veterans of previous Triangle Club casts and choruses will be included Ave Sherry, Secretary of the Club, who is directing the dancing and playing the leading feminine role, William Brenton and Franklin Gary, of comedy fame, and "Jake" Slagle, who will slip from the position of star half back to veteran chorus girl...

Author: By The Princetonian., | Title: TRIANGLE CLUB CHOOSES BIG, BAD, BAGDAD PLAY | 11/6/1926 | See Source »

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