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Word: keepings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation is one which the football coach does not often encounter. Instead of beseeching his men to keep off pro to stay in college he has to beg them to neglect their work to accomplish the same end. Public spirited members of the faculty are wondering why on earth they gave that football man an A instead of an E. The student body is holding informal parties in the rooms of the erring football men in vain attempts to lower the abominated high grades. Everybody, with three exceptions, is doing his best to remedy the disgraceful situation. Meanwhile the three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OVEREMPHASIS | 3/28/1928 | See Source »

...smoke, and banked on four sides by retreating slopes of intense watching faces, a billiard player in a stiff shirt and evening waistcoat, bending in a pour of white light over a green table, begins a run, clicking the cue ball against the two balls he is trying to keep against the cushion. When will he miss? Last week in San Francisco Edouard Horemans of Belgium shot 248 times, then stood aside for Jacob Schacfer to shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Billiards | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

Bright moments and light minds: Funny Face, Show Boat, Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Manhattan Mary, Take the Air, Keep Shufflin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Best Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...races were run over a one and five-sixteenths mile course. The strokes had been ordered to keep the pace down, and as a consequence no exceptional times were turned in. Captain John Watts '28 did not figure in Saturday's race having been ill for several days. It is believed, however, that he will be back in action today. C. H. Pforzheimer '28, second University coxswain last year, was also idle due to illness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREWS BATTLE IN FIRST RACE TRIALS | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...question is whether the future will also be supplied; and the answer is that the probabilities are good. Specifically, the paperboys of the Waldorf and the hand-cart are promising for the time when the present stock is gone, and natural processes will doubtless attract enough new material to keep the quota filled. The dull picture of Harvard without characters will hardly need to be painted for the next generation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOUTH'S COMPANIONS | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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