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Word: lepanto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should the people that discovered America and saved the world for Christianity (Lepanto), be spoken of with such detraction ? What purpose motivates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 9, 1925 | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

...battle of Lepanto but one of pants has been unhappily revived by an esteemed contemporary, the Harvard CRIMSON. We had thought this subject out of the way and disposed of, instead of which it more than smoulders. Let us recite the facts in orderly fashion certain Princetonians waited on President Coolidge, who with the eye of good-natured criticism remarked on the dimensions of their trousers, how they seemed to hover towards baggy descent, and upon the supposed absence of braces for the said two-legged petticoats. The words were taken as they were uttered, and the young Princetonians received...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS-- | 2/9/1925 | See Source »

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