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Word: lar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boxlike wings of the high domed Capitol, the people of the U. S. are given to understand their will is being done. Do congressmen understand it that way? They swear they do. But such is the dignity of congressional membership, especially in the Senate, that the popu- lar "you may" is almost inevitably superseded by the congressional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Seventieth | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...census report, a map and a weather chart were used in picking his home, and the inhabitants of this most average of cities than selected their average citizen. One wonders what convulsions seized the place how lar the average men departed from their normaley, dressing themselves and their households in Indian costumes or resigning from all their lodges in order to avoid being singled out for national, and unaverage ame, and how one of their number was unkindly taken unawares...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RANK LIST-GROUP FIVE | 10/20/1927 | See Source »

...Shepherd really believes that modern society is tottering nearer and nearer the grave, it is indeed fortunate for his own peace of mind that similar experiments have not been made among the generality of college students, for whom, one fears, the age of accountability may be placed lar beyond twelve. Lives there a man in any of the Newtons, for example, who has not found that it is possible to travel from Harvard Square, with transfer, to almost any outlying point for only five cents instead of the legally ordained ten? And yet to argue, as Mr. Shepherd probably would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EMBRYO SAFE-CRACKERS | 3/17/1924 | See Source »

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