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Word: honorable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complete photographed copy of a manuscript, dating from the eighteenth century and containing 360 Chinese eulogies, composed by a Lamaistic archbishop in honor of these Chinese divinities is the second of Baron von Stael-Holstein's gifts to the Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VALUABLE GIFTS ARE RECEIVED BY FOGG | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...marched Andrew Joseph ("Bossy") Gillis, red-headed roughneck Mayor of Newburyport, Mass., having served his two-month term for violating ordinances of the Newburyport town council (TIME, Sept 3 et seq.'). Newsmen surrounded him. After "bawling out one of them for a story he had not liked. His Honor joined his friends, the Newburyport fire chief and superintendent of streets, and drove away to get refreshments and see a football game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Again, Gillis | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...utterly shocked and totally unsympathetic Czechoslovaks, DumDum mer Vuciterna growled an explanation: "I shot him because of a blood feud. We have many in Albania. I did only what any Albanian would. Our code of honor demands a life for a life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Blood Feuds | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...development of the fraternity from its small beginning at William and Mary College of Virginia, he said: "Until 1907, the Harvard Chapter elections were based entirely on student standings as evidenced in the records of the College office. At that time several changes were introduced. The custom of honoring specially eight men each year from the Junior Class was inaugurated. Twenty-two seniors were elected at the same time and provision was made for the electors to select later in the year five more students from the Senior Class whose mathematical records would not qualify them for consideration but whose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AIMS EXPLAINED AT ANNUAL MEETING OF PHI BETA KAPPA MEN | 12/5/1928 | See Source »

...serve many a luncheon club with heated discussion topics but it won't be long before the whole business is at a standstill. The rapid generation of new and less inclusive teams to satisfy the longings of those who wish to see their favorite on some battalion of honor needs but a season or two to produce the irreducible minimum. When the all eastern eleven becomes divided into an all Hanover team, an all Cambridge team, an all New Haven team, and so on down even to an all New Jersey team, the cravings of the boys who love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES? | 12/5/1928 | See Source »

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