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Word: mail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knowledge that they pack into their brains is, in every reasonable cultural sense, useless; it is the sort of knowledge that belongs, not to a professional man, but to a police captain, a railway mail clerk, or a board boy in a brokerage house. It is a mass of trivialities and puerilities; to recite it would be to make even a barber or a bartender beg for mercy. . . . Honor does not go with stupidity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Idealist | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

College Republican Clubs, more than 250 of which are now functioning, will supply voters in all parts of the country with information on voting by mail. Director John Hamlin, of the College Bureau of the Republican National Committee, has just sent to the Harvard Republican Club full data on absentee voting laws of all states, and has requested the clubs to organize and maintain information bureaus for the benefit of voters who will be away from home on election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Campaign At Harvard | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

...couse, the Benjamin Franklin hypothesis is the most reasonable. Someone, no doubt, was annoyed with Benjamin for some reason, and vented his wrath in this lasting fashion. Since the picture was found not far from a mail box, it is safe to assume that the Philadelphia stage had been delayed, and the Saturday Evening Post had not reached Cambridge on Thursday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "BEDAMN, BEN!" | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

...Bureau received mail for roomless students and checked bundles and suitcases during the day. It was estimated by W. I. Tibbetts '17 that the bureau gave information to 3500 individuals. The bureau was open daily and on Sundays during the opening weeks of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. B. H. Bureau Had 3500 Questioners | 9/27/1924 | See Source »

...will be unnecessary. What need of protection for that nice looking Edward Albert from England? "My looks are my defense", can be his motto. If Mr. Davis is elected President, no need then for a secret service guard. His personal experience will clothe him safer than any linked mail. Even the open season on Follies' Queens may end. Who can tell? Tact, if nothing else, forbids a guess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "EXPERIENCE UNNECESSARY" | 9/26/1924 | See Source »

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