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Word: homing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot ignore a correspondence that I had with him in the summer of 1898. At my summer home in the woods of Plymouth, Massachusetts, I got a letter from Mr. E. B. Barton, a young graduate, whose diploma, testifying that he had received the degree of A.B., had been eaten by rats in Wadsworth House. He petitioned for another diploma in its place. As I knew that the President's objection to duplicating a diploma was almost Draconian in its rigidity, I had scarcely a shred of hope for Mr. Barton; but I did write to Mr. Eliot, then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Briggs, Disciple of Eliot, Writes on "Greatest Man He Ever Knew" in Article Rich With Anecdotes | 10/26/1929 | See Source »

...haven't bet any money on the game, and I haven't any ideas as to who will win. Even 14 I had I wouldn't publish them now; I'd wait until after I was safely home from the dance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dorothy Britton Interested in Pre Game Actions of Harvard and Dartmouth Men--Will be the Guest of Honor at Ball | 10/25/1929 | See Source »

...wife who is supporting herself and her husband on the money supplied her by a former lover. The inevitable occurs; her husband suspects that the former relationship is not entirely terminated, and in an insanely jealous mood murders the man whom he realizes is ruining the happiness of his home...

Author: By C. C. P., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/25/1929 | See Source »

...ride in his employer's limousine, was spotted and chased by traffic cops. For five minutes he sped, the police shooting at him. Then he bumped a light in front of a gas station, caromed into an alley, demolished a tree. In the darkness he slunk home, where police found him huddled in a clothes closet, popeyed, a rabbit's foot in each hand. He had also swallowed his tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ashman | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...animals is to go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild Life | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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