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Word: life (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...started. It now includes more than 1,000 links. Several years ago Mr. Penney felt his education was sparse. He closed his office every afternoon for 18 months, studied with a tutor. He attributes his business success, however, to the book Everybody Ahead, or Getting the Most out of Life by the famed success-philosopher Orison Swett Marden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover-Curtis | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...Possibly to be Secretary of Navy or War, Mr. Hoover's good friend Hugh Gibson, now Ambassador to Belgium, who began life in California. Also powerfully pondered were the great ambassadorships. Leading candidate for something good, possibly London: handsome, able Henry Prather Fletcher who escorted the Hoovers to and around and back from South America, and who, like Mr. Gibson, is a distinguished diplomatic career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cabinet Making | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

Issuance of a pardon for Dewey Crosthwaite, convicted murderer of School Teacher Thelma Lovejoy. Governor Johnston said that it was "the greatest mistake of my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ewe Lamb Rebellion | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...event of the year that lifts many a student out of the humdrum of campus existence and gives him a taste of campus life he reads about in magazines, yet never sees in real life; takes him from an uneventful existence to College Life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soundings | 1/26/1929 | See Source »

Many a student has read stories of college life and believed them...who never saw such life on the campus that is his (or her) home. Yet somehow this inconsistency is never noticed Books, the library, football, basketball, a show or two, tea dances. Citizens, studying, sleeping, eating these with a few variations make up the life of the college student. Aside from romances connected perhaps with football or basketball, these are never touched upon in magazine college life. The exceptions, and not the rule, give the periodical reader his impression of campus life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soundings | 1/26/1929 | See Source »

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