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Word: lastinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Loud plaudits, transient fame, and sometimes lasting wealth are deemed the typical rewards of champions. Men honor perhaps too often and too eagerly their strong, enduring or dexterous brethren. Yet this is not always so. Last week, during one sweltering London afternoon, a little man of 61, whose brown beard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Champion Pinner | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

Great and lasting achievements are not built on Persian rugs, nor do dreams completely crystalize into accomplishment in well furnished apartments. The average citizen is much too possessed of comfort. Nor is it difficult to gain. One has but to stay long enough with a large corporation or get high...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMFORT | 6/18/1926 | See Source »

When momentary folly sends one into the sudden permanence of probation and the certain unpleasantness of publicity one realizes that there is at college as elsewhere an eternal fitness of things which is lasting and must not be violated. Recently certain members of the freshman class at Harvard were so...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THESE SAD YOUNG MEN | 6/18/1926 | See Source »

There certainly could be no none better fitted to write such a book. Dr. Davison has had rich experience in instilling the ideals of the best music into the minds of youth. In the latter part of the book he takes up specifically the problem of college glee clubs. It...

Author: By P. C. Johnson, | Title: The Journalists Write Biography | 6/8/1926 | See Source »

This room, again, is a melting pot for all the interest and experiences of its occupants. Some of the men have just got back from Europe, Asia, or Timbuctoo, and some are just going there. All the information of worth is circulated, and soon the new thoughts and facts have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATELIER IS HEART OF HARVARD SYSTEM | 6/5/1926 | See Source »

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