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Word: maining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last year, showing that there has been little change in undergraduate tastes and interests in this respect. The general examination was in force last year for the first time for men concentrating in English, but this fact has not decreased the number of men choosing the subject as their main field of work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH REMAINS FAVORITE CHOICE FOR CONCENTRATION | 10/28/1922 | See Source »

President Lowell introduced Professor Pirenne, who in a short introduction in English, apologized for delivering his main speech in French...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DELIVERS FIRST LECTURE | 10/26/1922 | See Source »

...Many young men", Mr. Thayer continued, "come to Cambridge primarily for the military courses, in preparation for an army career. They consider their military work the main part of their university career, other things being secondary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRESS MILITARY WORK IN ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES | 10/20/1922 | See Source »

...memorial pictures painted by John Singer Sargent, honorary '16, was installed last Sunday above the main staircase in Widener on one side of the door to the Memorial Room and the other will be put in place on the opposite side next Sunday. The pictures are on War themes and are intended to be a memorial to the Harvard men who died in the War. One depicts the departure to war and the other the return. It is the former which is now in place but it will be covered by a veil until the other is also installed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Sargent Painting in Place | 10/17/1922 | See Source »

...move in the right direction has been made by the Women's Municipal League of Massachusetts, which makes its main purpose to "prepare women to fill positions now open to them in municipal and state departments." But such opportunities ought not to be limited to women alone. The need of men of a high type to make a business of politics instead of politics of their business was never more in evidence than today. As Colonel Roosevelt once put it, "to be effective in politics a man must make it his profession. An amateur politician is like an expert fencer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FABLE OF THE FROGS | 10/16/1922 | See Source »

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