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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The large proportion of Freshmen in these courses and the wide range of subject matter covered by them make comparatively frequent check-ups in the form of tests advisable. But this fact does not answer the question as to how heavily these periodic tests should count toward the final grade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUDGING THE FINISHED PRODUCT | 6/15/1929 | See Source »

The end of another school term is not far off. If it revealed by no other sign than the number of editorials appearing on the subjects of Commencement, A Life's Work, Farrewell, Alma Mater, and other of a like nature, it is well heralded to end the school year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cramming--A Result | 6/12/1929 | See Source »

It is late Sunday evening; an automobile containing a man and his wife with their small child beside them is driving leisurely home from a Sunday holiday. Two men with sawed off shot guns step from the bushes and order the vehicle to halt. Thoughts of highway robberies, his family...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAW GETS ITS MAN | 6/11/1929 | See Source »

Once when Gilbert Stroud, aged 7, was fidgeting with a spoon and fork at table, his stepmother, nerve-wracked from maternity trouble, slapped him with the carving-knife. That, says Author Mannin, was the genesis of 1) a scar on his wrist, 2) his animosity towards women. Aged 10, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Odd Odyssey | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Following the time trials held yesterday evening, both crews were granted a lay-off today and went for a four-hour cruise on the Sound in J. Pierpont Morgan's palatial steam yacht, "Corsair". Present plans here in the Crimson training quarters call for two time trials this week in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWNELL IS AWARDED CAPTAINCY OF JAYVEES | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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