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Word: markes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quarter-final, semi-final, and final matches are to take place on the University Club courts. All other matches may be played where most convenient for contestants. The best three out of five games will mark the winner of all matches, and the new official ball will be used...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS C SQUASH TOURNEY DRAWS HARVARD PLAYERS | 3/12/1929 | See Source »

Changes Involved. Last week President Coolidge sent to Congress the final "scientific" figures, showing what would happen under National Origins. No great numerical difference would mark the change. At present the 2% quota system admits about 164,000 immigrants per year. Under National Origins about 153,000 aliens-150,000 as set in the law, plus the 100 minimum allowance to all countries-would come in. There would, however, be a marked change in the composition of U. S. immigration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: National Origins | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...Mark French, youthful painter, Robert Newlands, less youthful Oxford Don, were both conducting parlous affairs of the heart; and had it not been for their eighteenth century habit of writing each to the other as confidant, neither affair would have turned out so satisfactorily. Into the Lake Country Mark pursued his love-at-first-sight, a charming bit of femininity out of Jane Austen, or-remembering her ferocious father and mysterious exile at Farthing Hall-Jane Eyre. Mark had no sooner wrung from her a timid confession of love than she dismissed him, insisting that her duty lay with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Lover Needs a Confidant | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Distrait, Mark appealed to his friend, but Robert's letters brought no solace-only the melancholy news that his own wife had left him, because forsooth he had been rude to an old hag of a spiritualist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Lover Needs a Confidant | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...ANTHOLOGY or WORLD POETRY-Edited by Mark Van Doren-Simon & Schuster ($5). Discrimination as well as scope is in this fine piece of editing. The authors range from Li Tai-po to Sappho and Goethe; the translators from Swinburne to Edwin Arlington Robinson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mention- Mar. 11, 1929 | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

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