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Word: habitations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...emotional, so-called "human side" of every man, even man, even of the scholar requires some satisfaction and the public, little is it may sympathize, deserves to be shown, now and again, what even its most secluded inhabitants have been doing. Most scholars are in the habit of reaching at least their scholastic confreres with their published opinions. Most are actually content with stopping here, content with fame among those who will study and preserve their works to another generation of students. By the time that this fame has been attained, moreover, long seclusion and advanced age has usually, deadened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECOGNITION FROM WITHOUT | 6/15/1927 | See Source »

...their role in Jewish life is only to give, to provide for the poor east-European Jews, who depend on their aid. A good deal of the blame for this state of things must be placed at the door of our envoys from eastern Europe, who have made a habit of going to America to collect money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: U. S. Jews Discussed | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...Capt. Ugo V. d'Annunzio (son of the poet) is President of Isotta Motors, Inc. of Manhattan, the U. S. agency for Isotta-Fraschini automobiles ($15,000 and upward). He, well acclimatized, is an exponent of the U. S. take-a-cake-of-yeast habit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: D'Annunzio's Speed Boat | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...international year book) both spell "James Ramsay Macdonald" with a small "d." But, from so close a friend of Mr. MacDonald as Journalist-Lecturer Samuel Kerkham Ratcliffe, TIME welcomes the information that onetime Premier MacDonald now defies the authorities and spells his name with a big "D." His former habit of signing with a small "d" is attested by British passports signed by him during his Premiership, and recently examined by TIME to verify the spelling and capitalization "James Ramsay Macdonald." Since no one but Miss Ishbel MacDonald should receive credence in the matter of her age, TIME requested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Enthusiasm | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...finish, and does not always get his hands out properly. Brigham does not set his shoulders firm at the catch, and he lets them give when he takes hold. At times he fails to get his arms straight at the end of the recover. He also has an awkward habit of sticking his elbows out at the finish. LeMoyne is the shortest and lightest candidate, but does his full share of the work; should he part with his faults, he will make an efficient oar Jacobs is doing well at 7, but fails to use his arms properly. He drops...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Crimson" of 1877 Used to Pick Out Mannerisms of University Crew Men--Constructive Personal Criticism Was the Vogue | 5/25/1927 | See Source »

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