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Word: mained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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This privation is the fruit of faulty reading assignment. Too often smudged excerpts from many and sundry volumes comprise the reading matter of a course. Although each excerpt yields some knowledge of a topic, and the accumulation of them imparts the main facts of the course, the student does not grow wise from perusal of these smudges. The crisp pages, many times outnumbering their much-read brethren, cramp his comprehension within the confines of the smudges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VEILING OF WISDOM | 3/4/1926 | See Source »

...main features of the new tax bill as compared with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Unison | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

Partners Again. Potash and Perlmutter, old friends, herewith entertain again and in the main uproariously. George Sidney and Alexander Carr are the actors. The plot tells how the partners went into the movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Mar. 1, 1926 | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...Significance. There is a rigid directness about this story, a dramatic intensity achieved without sensational devices, that makes it notable. Mrs. Millin's is a disciplined intelligence that can find important work close at hand and perform its task without ostentation. Her book is a sort of Main Street in the Greek manner. There is severity, clarity, grave pity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mary Stuart | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

While other U. S. colleges continued to seethe quietly last week, two ripples of measurable proportions passed over Yale University, indicating main currents of today's educational flux, sounding main chords of that universal chorus, What's Wrong with U. S. Educa-ation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At Yale | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

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