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Word: keepings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...self-projection, greet the British nation last week. The international air had suddenly become filled with clouds of incense and Anglo-American goodwill. Prime Minister MacDonald was planning to go and talk with President Hoover about naval disarmament. Astute Mr. Dawes made it clear that he would try to keep beatific sentiment from cloying by playing his role of hustling, plainspoken, rough-diamond American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Hustler | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Only a hint of what went on in private leaked out during the public Council sessions. Famed sleepy-eyed Pacifier Aristide Briand exerted himself to keep harmony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Council of Madrid | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...that of his class as a whole. The Senior on the other hand, especially if he has lived with the same group for three years is not as ready to meet the boy from across the hall. He has his friends, interests, and he has divisional examinations to keep his mind occupied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coolidge Offers Bird's Eye View Of House Plan in 1929 Growth | 6/18/1929 | See Source »

Today the CRIMSON has a more varied circulation than at any other time during the College year. Graduates of all classes are again in Cambridge in order to renew old associations and to keep up with the changes made in their absence. Harvard has long been distinguished for the unusual devotion of its alumni and perhaps at no time is this spirit brought more to the public notice than in the events of Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RETURN OF THE NATIVE | 6/18/1929 | See Source »

...only too obvious that not the slightest effort has been made by the Society to keep up with the changes in educational method at Harvard. Founded at a time when all scholastic success was measured by isolated course grades, this organization has continued on the ancient theory that what was good enough for our grandfathers is good enough for us. The present result of this policy has without question left the Phi Beta Kappa Society with a somewhat foolish grin on its scholarly features. After all, anyone who knows anything about what Harvard has of late years been trying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOOL DAYS | 6/18/1929 | See Source »

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