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Word: hollow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laboratory work and in many of these the number of hours per week is nearer twelve than nine. It is not too much to say that more than half of the afternoons in his last two years will find him in the laboratory. Who can blame him for a hollow laugh if one mentions the "other advantages" of College life? To be sure, his evenings may be free, but that is the time when the men he would find most value in associating with are doing their studying. Of all those who desire to see lights burning in the laboratories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AEQUANIMITAS | 4/27/1929 | See Source »

...competition demands that these consultations with the muse, or fury, of football be held in solitude. And insult is added to injury by the honeyed information that on the Thursday before the Yale game the team will run through signals before the public eye. It is but a hollow victory when one's champion upon the field of battle loses all human interest behind a mask of secret practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SINNING IN SECRET | 4/26/1929 | See Source »

...Indianapolis, one Aaron Everett, 69, grump, quit his son's home because of the incessant radio. Searchers found him nestled in a hollow tree, grumbling over and over "A fellow can't sleep at all," and munching gingersnaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 8, 1929 | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Things are looking up in the fisticuff business. For years it has been unexciting largely because it was held in the horny hollow of one man's hand, Tex Rickard's. Others sought to enter the field of promotion from time to time but failed because they could not cope with the supreme showmanship of the old master. Then Rickard died (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Carey, Dempsey & Fugazy | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

Died. Dr. John Knox Allen, 84, of Tarrytown, N. Y., for 50 years minister of the First Reformed Church of Tarrytown, famed as the church near which the Headless Horseman gave horrific chase to Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; of paralysis; in Tarrytown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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