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Word: mightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hesitation of the Corporation and its previous decision denying the use of the surplus in this emergency, may well have been in the hope that some further benefactor might complete the picture. Thus far, such an event has not come to pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SO HE TOOK THE FIFTY THOUSAND | 10/1/1929 | See Source »

...gift of several hundred thousand dollars were hovering on the horizon's edge, might not this sum be better diverted to the interests of science, or architecture, or, in short, to some field more dependent upon the purse of the University than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SO HE TOOK THE FIFTY THOUSAND | 10/1/1929 | See Source »

Aside from the actual plot and acting of the picture some very interesting advice is offered to the love-lorn, which ordinarily would be excellent controversial material for Dorothy Dix rather than for her younger male namesake. But this time Richard turns adviser and as might be expected, his excellent counsels are turned against him to his ultimate downfall...

Author: By P. C. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/1/1929 | See Source »

Here, decided journalists, was an elixir of intelligence. Idiocy, in their thoughtless declarations, was now curable. Dr. Steinach last week emphatically assured the world that it was not an elixir of intelligence, but might be called an elixir "of temperament, because it is a natural stimulant." It restores overworked and overtired nerves to normal and makes sluggish animals active...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brain Juice | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard, has been distorted through the agent of a curious sensational press into an object of ridicule for which the unfortunate chance remark of President Angell can not be held solely responsible. This journalistic white lie evokes the unintelligent indignation of prattling flappers where a more fortunate representation might have conveyed a point of view that in its larger aspects can hardly be said to be unintelligent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE TO BE PITIED | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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