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Word: knits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breeches that once had been white. There were no pads or head gears or similar protection, for mass play had not been invented. A few of the Harvard men went bareheaded while others wore crimson football caps of soft wool without visors; the Yale team wore long blue caps knit like a stocking with a blue tassel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale Football Series a History of Two Waves of Victory | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

Despite the limitations of space and style selected by the author a well knit, compelling novel has been evolved. As a recorder of the current of emotion florving and ebbing in society at a wedding breakfast, it probably remains alone in the field...

Author: By A. B. M. ii., | Title: More Early Autumn Novels | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...line with modern thought in sumptuary legislation. The people of the United States have passed the strictly States' rights construction period and there have always been definite limitations on personal liberty. Our country has developed from a federation of loosely linked States into a closely knit nation. The Constitution has given the Federal Government the right to legislate for the nation on the liquor question and the Federal Government probably will continue to possess and exercise that right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Hearst on Treason | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

With his heavy Scotch brows knit in a worried frown, James Ramsay MacDonald, onetime Prime Minister (Jan.-Nov. 1924), proposed, last week, legal protection for the British public against the mind-moulding power of the British newspaper trusts. "An alarming situation is developing!" rapped Scot MacDonald, and many listened because he leads the second largest British parliamentary party: Labor. What had ruffled Laborite MacDonald, it shortly appeared, was the formation last week of a new news trust: "Northcliffe Newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mind-moulding, Throat-cutting | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...know," Professor Wilson continued, "how long the lily will last, but we can only hope that without any actual rights or powers, our discussions will interest and knit together the people and governments of our nations to a friendly understanding based on mutual good-will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRICTION OF PACIFIC POWERS RELIEVED | 10/21/1927 | See Source »

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