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Word: grossed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rights and shall suffer no extortion as far as you may prevent it, and of as great honor be this order unto you as ever it was to any of your progenitors or others." After so ennobling a ceremony observers regretted that they could not banish from memory the gross legend which recounts how King Henry IV (1367-1413) was moved to establish the Order of the Bath. A certain courageous soldier had knelt before the Sovereign to be knighted, but His Majesty, although not squeamish, recoiled at the kneeling man's terrific exudations. Tactful, King Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Most Noble | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...gross canard. The Senate's mumps did not exist outside of the irresponsible pages of The Club-Fellow. Senator Joe Robinson had, it was true, a bronchial cold which kept him from his seat for five days. Senator Johnson, too, was briefly indisposed. But both were quite unmumped. Persons with respect for Senators viewed the gossip-swollen Club-Fellow with alarm. The sheetlet's irresponsibility was further revealed by its evident confusion of the Senate's two Robinsons. Still talking about "Senator Joe Robinson" The Club-Fellow said: "At any rate they [mumps] have kept Robinson quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mump Canard | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

Departmental special examinations in History. Government and Economics on Tuesday and Thursday Abbott-Gross at Emerson D. Hain Wyler at Memorial Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Changes in Examinations | 5/5/1928 | See Source »

...clock History, Government, Economics--GeneralNew Lecture Hall History of Philosophy and General Psychology Emerson 27 9.15-10.45 O'clock Social Ethics, Allied Fields of Economics, Philosophy and Psychology Emerson 27 2-4 O'clock Greek Literature Sever 30 TUESDAY 9.15-12.15 O'clock History, Government, Economics--Departmental Abbott-Gross Emerson D Haines-Wyler Memorial Hall Systematic Philosophy and Special Psychological Topics Emerson 23 Social Ethics, Essay Emerson J Greek Translation, Honors Sever 26 9.15-1.15 O'clock History and Literature--Final General Examination and Preliminary General Examination--for Juniors, candidates for honors Emerson J 2-5 O'clock Greek Composition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENERAL EXAMINATIONS | 5/5/1928 | See Source »

Trembling witnesses went pale and stuttered with fright as they testified at Kovno last week against the dread onetime Chief of Lithuania's Political Police, Herr Jacob Badchis, now on trial for acts of gross brutality, extortion and malfeasance in office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LITHUANIA: Third Degree | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

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