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Word: getting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fomenting every revolt that came along. The Under Secretary was sympathetic, but suggested that Lawrence return immediately to Sussex and forget all about it. He added, however, that if ever he could do the other a favor-within reason-Lawrence should call upon him. "You can," said Lawrence, "get me back in the Air Force." And it was done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...blame but themselves if the group is not congenial. Under the Harvard "House Plan", if a group didn't turn out to be congenial (and most of them wouldn't) only the donors could be blamed and it would be "just too bad that the boys can't get along together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Syracuse Says Thumbs Down | 3/2/1929 | See Source »

...pair, with Stubbs scoring consistently on fast, rising shots Potter Palmer '32, the speediest member of the sextet, and Captain C. C. Cunningham '32 are both expert body-checkers who have broken up many determined assaults on their territory. C. D. Draper '32 has allowed only three shots to get past him into the Harvard goal

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDEFEATED 1932 SIX SKATES AGAINST YALE | 3/2/1929 | See Source »

Having lost its last two games, to Worcester Academy and the Dartmouth Freshman respectively, the Freshman basketball team will make an effort today to get back in the winning columns when it opposes the Tabor Academy team at 4 o'clock. The game will probably be played in Hemenway Gymnasium, but there is a possibility of it being held at the Freshman Athletic Building, due to conflicting University team practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN QUINTET OPPOSES TABOR ACADEMY TEAM TODAY | 2/28/1929 | See Source »

...Myra, would never do. Lois, for her part, loved, but did not bestir herself to contradict her aunt. When a few days later the subaltern, on patrol, was shot from ambush, Aunt Myra thought it sad, and continued her teas. Lois pondered, to no avail, and went abroad to get on with her French. But that was their last bland September; by the next, revolutionary incendiaries had laid fiery waste to Danielstown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irish Indifference | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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