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Word: leaf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...crushed; partly due to the obvious facts that old international jealousies and frictions are cropping out among the Allies. But whatever the causes of the regeneration of the old Prussian arrogance, the world is endangered until the Germans are made to realize that they must turn over a new leaf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SHEEP'S-CLOTHING MENACE. | 12/6/1919 | See Source »

...complaint Lampy, to the gratification of his many faithful readers, proceeds to give an idea of what he means by modern wit. Classicism may be very well in literature, but in the realm of humor, the modern commuter prefers something smacking less of Adam and the fig leaf. His efforts easily outrank former issues and vie with that masterpiece of 1918, the Graduates Number. We are told that poetry is that art dealing with the emotion through the imagination. In that case Lampy's reputation as a bard is firmly established, for by no other route have we, who stayed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Versailles Number of Lampoon Voices Unspoken Words of All | 1/30/1919 | See Source »

...printed legend, "Christmas Number," but there is something worth looking over anyway. The front cover is rather impressive, by the way--much better in its colors of red and blue and its unusual theme than a "Merry Xmas" affair, done in the orthodox red and green. Not a holly leaf in sight, either. You take the laurel sprig for this num- ber, Lampy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Number Unique | 12/12/1917 | See Source »

...make their appearance in Flanders, side by side with serpent mottled and zebra striped. The armies may view with each other in sartorial battle for the most striking colors, and soldiers parade along Dead Man's Hill as civilians parade on Fifth Avenue. The familiar cloudblue, sand-brown, and leaf-green uniforms will be passe as are hoop skirts now. We may suppose an army clad in giraffe spots combatting victoriously at Potsdam, and taking time to change to ostrich-white and black before entering the capitol in triumph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEPHANT GRAY | 6/7/1917 | See Source »

...floor on the side nearest Memorial Hall under the auspices of the School, and the different kinds of apparatus are now available for use in connection with academic work by students in the school. The collection includes a dictaphone, various kinds of time-recording, clocks, adding machines, typewriters, loose-leaf forms and accounting books, and a Hollerity Tabulating Machine." The rooms are open daily, except Saturday and Sunday between 1.30 and 5.30 o'clock, and are under the charge of L. V. Boyle 2GB and E. C. Loucks 1GB, who explain the operation of the equipment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENLARGED FACILITIES FOR SPECIALIZATION OFFERED | 1/31/1917 | See Source »

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