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Word: mightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, two months had passed since the new occupants took over the White House. Observers looking to see what changes, if any, might have come over the White House, noticed that the bronze-bound doors were swinging to and fro with a brisk new freedom. They opened not only in for strangers (see col. 1) but also out for plain tourists to issue grandly forth from the main entrance after staring their way through state chambers. The tourist exit always used to be through the basement. The Open Door policy is the most tangible change which Mrs. Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Open Doors | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...Ligne, much in demand in Washington's smart official and diplomatic life, has not been seen frequently enough concluding statesman-like negotiations for his government. Tall, distinguished, invariably well-groomed and polished, the Belgian diplomat is nevertheless regarded by some of the leaders of his government as what might be termed in America 'high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Discourtesies | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

When Ray Lyman Wilbur left Leland Stanford's presidency to become President Hoover's Secretary of the Interior, there were predictions that the long-discussed Department of Education might now become a reality, with Dr. Wilbur as its first chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Education Department | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...performance successfully refutes the arguments of those die hards who persist in the belief that there are never any pretty girls at Radcliffe. Many will appear at Brattle Hall this week helping to beautify a production that might have been merely amusing without them

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB IN MUSICAL COMEDY | 5/8/1929 | See Source »

...entitled "The Third Elective" has been instituted to carry announcements of the most noteworthy lectures of the day. "The Student Vagabond" in The Harvard Crimson has accomplished that same purpose for some time and has been considered of valuable aid in announcing topics of the day to students who might be interested in visiting certain classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Vagabonds | 5/8/1929 | See Source »

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