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Word: jeffreys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Explanations being now in order. Professor Wegener pointed to the well-known sliding propensities of continents to account for their present state of mutual aloofness, thus causing great offence to Professor Jeffrey, who had based his story of the origin of the earth on opposite premises. Scientific discoveries, however, thrive on opposition, and Professor Wegener is not alarmed by the objections of a few conservatives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLIDING CONTINENTS | 1/15/1926 | See Source »

Engaged. Miss Vera Hale, direct descendant of Lord Jeffrey Amherst, famed soldier; to George D. Pratt, President of the American Forestry Association and Treasurer of the Boy Scouts of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sport | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

...Judd. After we get into the story we find our highwaymen. Gentleman Jo has shot the stage coach guard in the belly. It was certainly in the belly because there are five references to Gentleman Jo's custom of shooting only at the belly. Gentleman Jo, is not the Jeffrey Farnol or the Alfred Noyes sort of highwayman, as the bar maid had hoped, because but read the story for yourself. I might spoil it for you, hard Dixon should be read twice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVOCATE TERMED GOOD, BUT NOT DISTINGUISHED | 12/12/1925 | See Source »

...Jeffrey, G. '99, Professor of Plant Morphology, to assist in his study of trees in Australia and New Zealand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND SERIES OF MILTON FUND AWARDS FOR RESEARCH ANNOUNCED BY UNIVERSITY | 9/26/1925 | See Source »

...famed "Lord Jeffrey Amherst," British general, for whom Amherst College (Amherst, Mass.) was named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Jul. 13, 1925 | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

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