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Word: longer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Well, it should be made longer, anyway. An eight day vacation gives you only one day in Lima, Peru, if you should choose to fly to Lima, Peru, for the holidays. Just how much shorter is our vacation than any other? Yale has fifteen days. Vassar and Wellesley ten. Ours is no shorter than Princeton's or Bryn Mawr...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLOW TO THE PEEVUM PERENNIUM | 3/25/1938 | See Source »

...seem to prove why our vacation should be longer to earlier, but we can at least urge malcontents not to say "Why is our vacation so much shorter and later than any other?", but rather to confine their complaint to "Why is our vacation shorter than Yale's and later than Vassar's, Smith's, or Bryn Mawr...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLOW TO THE PEEVUM PERENNIUM | 3/25/1938 | See Source »

...glad you remembered, Vag. Don't ever forget again. But I won't disturb you any longer. Except for this---" She picked up Meade and flung it across the room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/25/1938 | See Source »

...Oxford-Cambridge Meet, has not had the same success on the winter boards. Shields and Day, Yale Sophomores, have succeeded in dethroning Donovan and Watson of Dartmouth while Fernald has not fulfilled expectations by graduating to that rank. A slow starter, he may come into his own over the longer distance outdoors. Fred MacIsaac is another Sophomore who should strengthen Crimson track. In the B.A.A. Games he cleared 13 feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mikkola's Chargers Enter Stadium in Final Drive for Early Season Opener | 3/24/1938 | See Source »

...contemporary musicians. He has a firm faith that the development of electrically controlled instruments will bring about a musical golden age. In a recent book,* he predicted the invention of vast music-creating engines, envisioned a musical art in which present-day musical instruments and "interpretive" musicians would no longer be necessary. What this music of the future would sound like, and why anyone should want to create it or listen to it, Prophet Chavez left to his readers' imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mexican Maestro | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

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