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Word: lurking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York, Erika and Klaus Mann, noted Germans who are actively interested in the international youth movement, told a CRIMSON reporter that "the main purpose of the movement is to bring the youth of today into the foreground in the eyes of the elder generation, and not to have it lurk in the background as a force that may be of importance when it grows up. Mr. and Miss Mann will speak on "The Situation of the Young European" at 8 o'clock this evening in Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GERMAN SPEAKERS BOOST WORLD YOUTH MOVEMENT | 1/25/1928 | See Source »

...state the files were blessed with a certain system and order; after a day of handling, however, they are reduced to woeful complexity. Only those courses ending at the midyear are guaranteed the safe haven of being bound in book form. The others, the whole courses, are destined to lurk unseen or at any rate unfond in a maze of un-alphabetized sheets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIDE AND SEEK | 1/25/1927 | See Source »

From a half crown sack of books in the hands of a London lurk dealer to a place of honor" in the Bunvan collection at the Widernor Library is the journey destined to be taken by a forty-four page first edition of John Bunyan's "A book for Boys and Girls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Edition of Bunyan's "A Book for Boys and Girls" Given to University by Anonymous Donor--One Other Copy Extant | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...British Columbia marks the passing of the masthead muezzins. A Victoria whaling company has chartered seaplanes to be carried on shipboard to the whaling grounds, launched overside and sent spinning over the ocean in far circles. High over the sea, air observers can "spot" a whale even though he lurk far below the surface; can flash his nautical bearings even to an invisible whaleship and keep leviathan in sight until the harpoons arrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Whale Spotting | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...hundred thousand dollars or a new gymnasium." Intellectual "safety" was defined: "He must be devoid of all purely rational principles and ideas of any sort . . . cannot be a Roman Catholic, a Quaker, a Holy Roller. . . . Above all, he should understand how to befog issues wherein ideas perhaps lurk dangerously by raising and keeping raised a perfect dust storm of issues that really do not matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard Irked | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

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