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Word: givings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warmest weather be bathed in the open air, or exposed to any draft while the least bit wet. So many of them surfer severe aftereffects, as well as torture from extreme fright, which cats who are not accustomed to water always have of being put in it. Give 15 minutes excitement at a County Fair, and set a bad example of animal treatment to all children present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Stimson's Studies. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson completed a three-week "instruction course" which qualified him as a naval expert for the London conference. His teachers, admirals of the Navy's General Board, called one after another at his office to give lessons in naval equipment, strategy, statistics. It was announced that as a lover of peace, not as a pacifist, would Statesman Stimson lead the U. S. delegation to London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Parley Preparations | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...great issue was settled-a man can wear his own clothes. . . . My ambition is to make everybody in the city smile. . . . You ain't seen nothing yet." Mourned Candidate La Guardia: "What a shellacking they gave me! . . . People don't resent graft any more. . . . At least give the corpse a chance to cool. . . . Yes, I still believe in democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Vote Castings | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Manuel Aubert, Professor at the Ecole des Chartes, Paris, and Director of the Societe Francaise d'Archeologie will give the last of his lectures on "Les grandes cathedrales de France" on Thursday in the Fogg Art Museum at 4.30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Aubert to Lecture | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

...Girl", current attraction at the University Theatre, has been seen, one wonders why there aren't more like it. It is another all talking-singing-dancing picture, but not just another one. Betty Compson, having taken unto herself a French accent, combines with Jack Oakie and Ned Sparks, to give cinema patrons one of the snappiest and most delightful musical movies to date. The entire picture has a certain swing that is sure to captivate one, and, contrary to most movies of its type, "Street Girl" has a continuity to it that keeps it from the bromidal class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "STREET GIRL" IS GOOD ENTERTAINMENT | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

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