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Word: may (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Francis Ouimet, who was to have coached the Harvard team this year, will probably be unable to do so because of an appendicitis operation which may necessitate his giving up golf altogether for more than a year. The team will in all probability be again under the direction of the captain alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOLF SEASON WILL OPEN SHORTLY BEFORE RECESS | 3/20/1929 | See Source »

...schedule for the season follows: May 4 Holy Cross May 10 Pennsylvania May 11 Georgetown May 11 Princeton May 18 Dartmouth May 24 Brown May 25 Williams May 30 Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOLF SEASON WILL OPEN SHORTLY BEFORE RECESS | 3/20/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard". Next to the college on the hill, Harvard is chosen closest to the hearts in green. Yale is Dartmouth's keenest rival: the Indians picked Smith as their favorite woman's college. In the choice another significant note is discernible in the balloting, for Dartmouth men may justly claim the virtue of consistency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "MY SON EMMET--" | 3/20/1929 | See Source »

...twentieth century mind seems unwilling to accept characters and incidents hung in mid-air by an author's fancy. Proust, Joyce. "Orlando." "Death Comes to the Archbishop," and may I say my own work all verge into the province of memories, diaries, historical narrative, and autobiography...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thornton Wilder Sees Development of Narrative Novel Into New Form-Calls Style "By-Product of Personality" | 3/19/1929 | See Source »

...almost the only, great exception continues to be the Rockefeller Foundation, which, through its many ramifications, encourages the most varied forms of culture without rousing any lay opposition to its work as unnecessary or futile. The endowment granted to the Fogg Art Museum a few weeks ago may well become a classic example of sensible generosity; and the awards of the General Education Board for literary research of importance, while not announced with the explosive force that accompanied the earlier huge gift, are along similar lines of a practical value that only the most hardened Philistine would deny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWICE BLESSED | 3/19/1929 | See Source »

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