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Word: fulle (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other and less significant changes include full-page cuts for the minor sport articles--instead of cartoons; total absence of humorous drawings and of langurous ladies--the latter an excellent omission; and brief articles on "miscellaneous activities', instead of mere lists of participants. A more unfortunate alteration--cheapening but lucrative--is the placing of all the scholarship records of the class in a submerged position among the advertisements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EX-EDITOR LAUDS NEW VOLUME | 5/29/1928 | See Source »

...morals in the function. It was for just such as these that Mark Twain prescribed shooting for those that sought a moral in Huckleberry Finn. But no one need heed these defilers of the Freshman's pleasure. Whether it represents the climax of the first year, the matriculation into full-fledged Sophomores, or any of many other symbols, no one very much cares. But everyone will at least agree that the Standish back-yard (or smith Common room, as the Fates decide) has never been graced with more delightful visions in organdie or escorts with watch charms in greater abundance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRIKE UP THE BAND | 5/29/1928 | See Source »

Ramona. Lo, the poor half-Indian, pity her. Her loving husband, a full Indian, is maltreated by the whites in California in the days of '49. Her baby dies because the white physicians will have nothing to do with her. White bandits shoot up her village, kill her Indian friends and her husband. She wanders in the wild woods, brokenhearted. Thus, the popular novel of Helen Hunt Jackson as screened by United Artists. Dolores Del Rio, always throbbing, is at her best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 28, 1928 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...ugly names. At Buchman "houseparties" (gatherings devoted to mutual confession and "washing out"), sex is the pièce de résistance. Mr. Buchman and his assistants are accused of reducing their diagnoses of spiritual sufferings to bad sex habits. The weak-chinned element in schools and colleges, full of relief at finding so plain a focal point for their self-betterment ambitions or so simple a seeming cause for all their adolescent agonies, succumb readily to the "spiritual surgery" which follows this easy diagnosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Buchmanites | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...English weather will be bad too. It Was particularly unpleasant at Hunstanton, England, where the British women's tournament was played last week. Followed by several thousand people a pair of pretty girls began the tournament by driving into a wind that swept in full of rain from the cold North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Hunstanton | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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