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Word: mazes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unbounded resources which Harvard is reputed to enjoy are usually more or less enmeshed in a maze of contingence and stipulations so that the University is definitely restricted to a particular policy. Such bequests as the Wyeth gift a few weeks ago, with no strings attached, create a welcome opportunity for the administration to widen its program of expansion where the need of the moment demands readjustment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD FUND | 1/21/1930 | See Source »

...first suggestion he offers "Is Sex Necessary?" a delightful parody on the steadily accumulating mass of literature, smacking strongly of Freud and driving the debonair dandy and the dilettantish debutante into a maze of inhibitions and high-priced psychiatrists. This clever satire, minus the usual steel edge, will, the Vagabond is convinced, be an excellent defense mechanism against the strongest pent-up fixation. It is funny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

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