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Word: hemen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...History Tricked by Literary Focality? Perhaps George F. Babbitt of Zenith had it coming to him. He was an enormously ignorant, ineffectual, and complacent man. His tribe of hemen, go-getters and parasites upon public cupidity and gullibility deserved to be pilloried by Sinclair Lewis. But his more talented cousins-the big business man, the financier, the military leader, the engineer, the scientist, the inventor -have a more genuine grievance against the world. They have erected the edifice of modern civilization, they are responsible for Progress with a capital P, but fame and immortality go to the artists. Because they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thirteen Tarkingtons* | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

...Boxing tournament at Hemen-way Gymnasium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Is Going On Today | 4/1/1921 | See Source »

...great deal more than heretofore, and the installation of the new squash courts in the Randolph Gym is to be directly credited to the Physical Training Department, Basketball has been revived, and a promising Freshman team is the result. Also an inter-class series has been arranged. The Hemen-Gym., which has been a desert for some years, is once more a used building. Besides this, expert boxing instruction is available gratis, not only to Freshmen, but to upperclassmen. We call this instruction. So much has the Physical Training Department accomplished...

Author: By Paul Jackson, | Title: Communication | 2/12/1920 | See Source »

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