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Word: granted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roman Catholics devoted no time to answering a question which rose to the lips of many a Protestant: "Why does the Roman Catholic Church refuse to grant a divorce to a man and woman who have lived in civil wedlock; but instead grants an annulment, of which one effect is to inform the unhappy pair that they have been living together in an unmarried state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mrs. Belmont Broods | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...WOMAN WHO DID-Grant Allen-Little, Brown ($2). Victorian tea-tables were violently oscillated by the appearance of this shocking tale 31 years ago. Only the wicked Continental authors had thitherto dared treat openly of females who "did." Author Allen's Herminia Barton not only "did" but gloried in it, and he in her. Daughter of a dean, school mistress of proper young ladies, Herminia positively refused to be made an honest woman, though her sensible lover, Alan Merrick, pleaded, and her would-be father-in-law cabled to them in Perugia with a flourish. Nevertheless, Victorian sympathy surged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 6, 1926 | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...third and last comment on the Historical Association's query is that research work in itself is not specifically encouraged by most. American endowment funds for research, and the college itself may grant vacations with half pay to some of its instructors for research purposes, but productive effort on the scale evidently desired by the Historical Association is not made practicable and probably never will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUNRO DEFENDS WORK OF PH.D.'S | 12/2/1926 | See Source »

...stopped analyzing America long enough to vivisect this latest of arts, in the New Republic. His criticism is more sapient than the average bombast against innovations, because it has a universal concept as its base Mr. Frank argues that while jazz may be folk art, such qualification does not grant it a halo a priori. "There has indeed been abroad for a full century the curious notion that folk art, as once the King can do no wrong; that folk art is necessarily good art; that the critic who dares to question folk art commits the unpardonable sin." This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN HONEST WOMAN | 11/30/1926 | See Source »

...Would you be likely to produce a particular piece of work if you were assured of a definite grant sufficient to cover part of the expenses of research and publication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 11/26/1926 | See Source »

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