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Word: mightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speaking of the past three years as mentor, he continued. "I have attempted to build up and firmly establish a system based on a principle of attack. The team has been sent onto the field with the idea of trying to score, rather than waiting for a break which might carry with it the fortunes of victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coach Horween Will Return to Guide 1929 Gridiron Destinies | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

...present, judging from the questions asked by random interrogators, no plausible theory to account for the presence and activity of psychopathology at Harvard College has any currency. It might be well, then, to give a brief account of ourselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Murray Describes Department of Abnormal Psychology | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

...have been furnishing you for the most part with rationalizations. If you ask me why abnormal psychology is at Harvard, perhaps the true answer, is that; "we're here because we're here". And if you ask me for what good are we, I might retort in the words of Benjamin Franklin: "What good is a new born babe?" an "enfant terrible" though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Murray Describes Department of Abnormal Psychology | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

...brilliant pageants of American history," a pageant of which the "real theme is courage and devotion; courage under conditions which would seem to stifle all human effort save an avid grubbing for food and housing, devotion to the fine ideal of disciplining the human intellect and human will." One might add that the courage was largely Dunster's, and in devotion no one was his equal. Harvard College might even have followed its founder to an early death and oblivion, but for the lively faith, the serene courage, and the steadfast devotion of Henry Dunster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First President of Harvard Gives College Longevity | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

...number runs over this among, about 35 more can be accommodated at the overflow infirmary on Quincy Street, Cambridge. Any more cases than these will have to be put elsewhere, in which case the Governing Board of the University would probably meet, and the possibility of closing the school might arise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REMOTE POSSIBILITY OF CLOSING COLLEGE | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

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