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Word: ghosts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every man has his ghost" is a slight over statement, but it still suggests a condition that exists in most colleges today and harasses the instructors who are correcting prepared essays. Ghost writing of all degrees, varying from outside assistance merely in organizing a paper all the way to the composition of a finished product with notes and all, done independently of the student, still prevails to a certain extend at Harvard, despite all efforts to blot it out. As long as it continues to exist, neither the long theses nor the short essays prepared outside of class will achieve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIND OVER MEMORY | 11/9/1938 | See Source »

AMIIHERST, N. H., November 3 (UP)--A state police guard was placed around the turkey farm headquarters of the Holy Ghost and Us Society tonight after conflicting reports that Harrington (Heavenly) Gates had field the cult...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEAVENLY GATES OPENED BUT THERE CAME FORTH NO MOUSE | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

...late, lion-maned Robert Marion La Follette once lectured on Hamlet at Ann Arbor, Mich. As he sonorously analyzed the Ghost Scene, across the stage behind him suddenly spooked a figure. It was not the Ghost. It was a young male embodiment in long knitted underwear. The audience guffawed. Old Bob did not see the apparition and the audience recognized it only as some University of Michigan fraternity neophyte. This year that ghost is the prime champion of human derelicts in U.S. politics, and he is recognized as Sheridan Downey, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in the great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL SECURITY: Men Under the Moon | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and Work of a Bishop in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Block to California | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Chief of the satellites is the cat-like all-American Brud Holland, at left end. Others are rangy center and Captain Van Ranst and the ghost-running left halfback, George Peck. In and around these are nothing but 200-pounders...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: TOUGH CORNELL TEAM HEAVY FAVORITE OVER HARLOWMEN | 10/8/1938 | See Source »

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