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Word: long (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...always been customary for all Ministers and Ambassadors to tender their resignations to an incoming President. But the increasingly numerous and important "career" diplomats, who have earned the rank of Minister after long and meritorious service, might well feel differently about getting out than would politically-appointed Ambassadors, party henchmen, "lame ducks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Something must be done to make the girls a little more contented with the fate that brings fifty per cent of them to Harvard husbands. A careful analysis of the recent pronunciamento brings to light the fact, concealed by long rhapsodic animadversions on the oadet's medieval atmosphere of chivalry, that Harvard men never learn to pick up their rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOLDIERS AND HUSBANDMEN | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...Such a long look toward the future is as unexpected as it is revealing. But it is to be said in Harvard's defense that not even the original exponents of chivalry picked up their clothes without the thoughtful assistance of someone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOLDIERS AND HUSBANDMEN | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...live again for you, my dear general, the horror of last night? At dusk the enemy laid down a barrage of kants. All night long we could see shafts of flame biting the midnight sky--the big goethes. At dawn, the tower where we are huddled was schlegelled...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...last parade of all is the greatest. The band plays old songs that are used only this once each year. The men of the graduates march to the front, a long straight line, they face about and the Corps that is left swings by them in review. It is almost a holy time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tradition at West Point Places the Plebe Lower Socially Than the Dust He Grovels In | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

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