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Word: nors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The artisan is familiar enough in every school, and, alas, in every college. He is the tortoise of the class, who struggles wearily on before the proddings of his parents and his schoolmasters. In the discreet fastness of the faculty room, his masters will tell you that he is a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Dean William I. Nichols Writes in Atlantic Monthly on the Convention of Going to College | 9/28/1929 | See Source »

The radio industry will not be the one to suffer the most if the proposed restrictions are put into effect. The radio has too many other uses and has become too integral a part of the life of the country to be displaced because one of its fields of activity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS ON THE AIR | 9/28/1929 | See Source »

Neither Trainer nor Ticknor is a physical giant; they both weigh around 190 and stand approximately six feet tall, but what they lack in bulk they amply make up for in strength and stamina. In all these qualities the one is very nearly the exact counterpart of the other, a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up By Time Out | 9/26/1929 | See Source »

Nor have customs changed in the matter of interior decorations of college rooms. A few empty gin bottles, a stein or two, felt pennants of other colleges (those of rival institutions usually upside down) and books with titles that promise a world of arid fact within.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 9/24/1929 | See Source »

The hunter for titles and "position" can still be found, but he is rapidly becoming obsolete. No longer does the football captain pace the Yard with an "H" emblazoned on his chest, giving advice and controlling the destinies of thousands of satellites. Nor does the presidency of some undergraduate activity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUTTER AND EGGS | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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