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Word: lating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Late one afternoon, President Coolidge sniffed enjoyably at false spring in the misty February air. Leaving off his overcoat, he set forth for a walk-down West Executive avenue, around the ellipse, up the opposite side. Then he did something that Presidents very seldom do: he went calling on a Cabinet official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Elder Statesmen | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Root is 84, Mr. Coolidge 56. The late great Boies Penrose used to insist that no man under 80 was eligible to Elder Statesmanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Elder Statesmen | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...leader of these raids was Manuel Maria Jiron, onetime chief assassin for the late President Manuel E. Cabrera of Guatemala, and more lately a "general" in the guerilla army of Augusto Calderon Sandino, Nicaragua's brigand-patriot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bandit-Catcher | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...placing its experts and the benefit of its research at the disposal of the group of international experts on international law to meet at Cambridge late in February, the Faculty of the Harvard Law School is in line with a growing tendency to give scholarship everyday usefulness. The CRIMSON commented recently upon the way in which Professor Chafee, speaking against capital punishment, demonstrated the usefulness of a professor in a legislative body. It will be also remembered that Professor Frankfurter took a prominent part in clarifying the legal situation involved in the Sacco-Venzetti case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREAKING TO HARNESS | 2/15/1929 | See Source »

...college president enters a university lecture hall to speak to his audience on subjects of extra-collegiate significance. Time was, a century or more ago, when college presidents were active members of the teaching faculty, giving courses and advising students on a field of study like any professor. Of late, the growing complexity of university organization and administrative details has kept the college heads away from the speaker's platform, except for those occasions met in performance of duty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A RED-LETTER DAY | 2/14/1929 | See Source »

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