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Word: moss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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After negotiations which had their inception last March and continued all Summer (TIME, Sept. 17) arrangements were finally completed for a conference with Canadian authorities to secure their cooperation in preventing rum smuggling from Canada. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury McKenzie Moss, accompanied by six technical assistants, was ordered to proceed to Ottawa, inasmuch as the Canadian Government had signified its readiness to receive the mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Avaunt, Smugglers! | 11/26/1923 | See Source »

...second article is that the teacher should not be special pleader for the beliefs correctly accepted by conservative opinion. His work is to investigate investigate moss-grown prejudices, his duty to present those solutions of fundamental problems which their fathers tested and rejected. For times change and new conditions may bring up to date what was once thought impractical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TEACHER'S CREED | 11/24/1923 | See Source »

...when the system goes into effect and night is turned partly into day. Yet even this is readily forgiven since the event is the immediate forerunner of vacation. Even if man is a conservative and stubborn animal, time and such "even-handed justice" will eventually dislodge him from his moss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH | 10/2/1923 | See Source »

...Secretary Hughes notified the British Chargé d'Affaires that McKenzie Moss, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, had been chosen, and asked to know at what time and place the Canadian authorities would receive Mr. Moss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cooperation from Canada | 9/17/1923 | See Source »

Frederick Flather '23 of Lowell has been appointed editor of "The Harvard Handbook" for 1923-24, published by the Phillips Brooks House Association. James Bogert Tailer Jr. '25 of New York City was selected as business manager. The assistant managers are: Alexander Moss White '25 of Brooklyn, New York: Hollis Keresey Thayer '25 of Brooklyn, New York; and Arthur Russell Sharp Jr. '25 of Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HARVARD HANDBOOK" BOARD APPOINTED FOR COMING YEAR | 4/14/1923 | See Source »

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