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Word: may (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cosmopolitan and divided as Harvard men may be, they manage to come together on one or two scattered points. And while views of the House Plan, the War Memorial, and the Lampoon may be colored by many different shades of Crimson, there is always a rosy halo about the neighborhood of Hollis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Professor Langer's reply. It is perhaps superfluous to reopen the subject, as I have nothing in particular to offer, but I do wish to express the fact that the course aroused in myself at times something of the spirit in which I believe your editorial was written. It may not, as Professor Langer demonstrates, accord with the facts, but there was certainly much about the course to exasperate the student. The combination of assignments of considerable, though not for this university unique, length, with breath-taking and nerve-wracking examinations and a considerable strictness in correcting and grading appealed...

Author: By Charles E. Pettee ., | Title: The Melody Lingers On | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...movement to reduce wages. . . . The greatest tool of stability is construction and maintenance work. The improvements and betterments and general cleanup of plants. . . . All of these efforts have one end-to assure employment. . . . A great responsibility rests upon the whole people. I have no desire to preach. I may, however, mention one good old word-work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Good Old Word | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Another problem (recited by Dr. Klein): "The small retailer. . . . Most of them may be careless, shortsighted and therefore shortlived (commercially speaking). . . . Admittedly many of them ought not to be in business. . . . In Louisville the costly perils of careless retailing were shown in the fact that 30 grocery stores failed in that city each month and 32 new ones opened up. . . . A recent analysis of the restaurant business in Kansas City showed that of some 1,080 such establishments in 1928, 551 went out of business and almost exactly, the same number of new ones opened up. . . . If the present average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Good Old Word | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Stimson only pain. His soft answer was to make no direct reply at all and to observe to correspondents: "Between co-signatories of the Pact, it can never be rightly thought unfriendly that one nation call to the attention of another its obligations or the dangers to peace which may from time to time arise. . . . In the language of the joint statement issued by the President of the U. S. and the Prime Minister of Great Britain on Oct. 10 last, 'both our governments resolve to accept the peace pact not only as a declaration of good intentions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Backfire | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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