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Word: howelis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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One day, when a violent attack of illness fell on him, a physician was called for diagnosis. He felt the pulse, he examined the tongue, he heard the report of the symptoms, then suddenly asked, "How old are you, Mr. Sophocles?" With a ready presence of mind and as pretty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idiosyncracies of Professor Sophocles, Famous Harvard Scholar, of Last Century Narrated by Professor Palmer | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

At home, gentle-born Jenny, his wife, descendant of the Duke of Argyle, planned and scrimped and did not whine. "Len-chen'' (Helene Demuth), given to Jenny by her mother as a wedding present, slaved till the end of her life with little or no pay, while the Master was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father of Socialism | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Spartanburg (S. C.) Herald-Journal, Columbia (S. C.) Record and Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle: $855,000 of notes of the owners, secured by all the stock of these papers. In spite of the earnest Graustein statements about the Graustein press, almost all the rest of the press flayed the Graustein policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Vertical Combination | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Among the many degrees how held by President Lowell are the degrees of LL.D. from several American universities, and Ph.D. from Frederich Willrelm University, Berlin, Strasbourg, McGill, Cambridge, and Victoria University of Manchester.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL FORCED TO REFUSE EDINBURGH'S DEGREE OFFER | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Slocum, the first speaker, spoke on how the proposed Advocate building would fit into the House Plan of the University. Child discussed the importance of a literary organization as a center of intellectual activity in the life of the University, and how this would inevitably redound to the benefit of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEGASUS PLANS TO ERECT NEW STALL IN GEORGIAN STYLE | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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