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Word: named (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clear that the system is not applicable to Harvard. The mere mention of a class mass meeting is enough to damn it. Nevertheless there is a need for a method by which the name of the nominee will have some significance in the mind of the voter. A brief mention of the position and activities of the candidate, printed on the ballot, would serve in some measure to acquaint the voter with the aspirant for office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHO'S WHO | 12/19/1929 | See Source »

...hardest job on Coach Stubbs' hands right now is to name the man who will be in the net at the opening whistle. The choice lies between Ellis, Draper, Hale, S. Putnam, and Wendell, but it seems that Ellis is the logical man right now because of his experience. At defense one veteran and a Sophomore. Garrison and Cunningham, have teamed up the best so far but it is very likely that Garrison and Batchelder will be the starting due. The starting forward line will also be experienced with the starting trio practically certain to be chosen from among...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STARTING SEXTET STILL A MYSTERY AS B.U. TILT NEARS | 12/17/1929 | See Source »

...when she does, her pessimism is only of the morning after. "To taste of everything just once-in order to be able to despise everything." In Diana, Author Ludwig has tried to give the ideal of modern emancipated woman: a realistic romantic, he has called her by the name of a goddess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Diana in a Green Hat | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Great is the esteem expressed when musicians present one another with wreaths. By this token a big, bearish Russian might have felt doubly honored last week in Manhattan. He received not only a floral wreath, but a lyre made of red and white carnations and inscribed "in the name of American musicians to this Orpheus of Russia." The famed, hulking Orpheus was Alexandre Constantinovitch Glazounov, now making his first visit to the U. S. and appearing last week as conductor of his own works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Russian Orpheus | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...boxlike, ether-wave instrument invented and played upon (motion of the hands before the instrument affects the ether waves, regulates pitch, tone, volume) by Russian Leon Theremin (TIME, Sept. 30). His recent sale of his patent to the Radio Corp. of America accounts for the new joint name given the instrument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sokoloff's Choice | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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