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Word: hyperborean (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort is reminiscent of the gentleman who, observing Apollo's Hyperborean journey, declared emphatically, "I shall compass this in terms of Quately's logic, or bust." He bust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...European universities. They cannot, however, be viewed as anything but a piece of coy irony on the part of the Dean's Office, for the general policy of the august personages therein enshrined has been to surround the transferral of credits from a foreign university with the vast, impenetrable, hyperborean mists of University red tape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EUROPEAN STUDY | 10/26/1933 | See Source »

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