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Word: pastes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover program: 1). A consolidation of inland waterways into one system, with no more "patchwork of disconnected local improvements [which] has in the past been the sink for hundreds of millions of public money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Billion-Dollar Beaver | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Fiske's rapid, casual delivery's, as ever, expert and sometimes unintelligible. Of the tricks of emphasis and accent she is still past-mistress. In this disappointing play she is accompanied by another oldtimer, Wilton Lackaye, who made mesmerist Svengali famous (Trilby, 1895), who returns, after a three-year illness, to do an excellent bit as the exasperated Judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...program of the Yale singers, while not yet definitely known, will include two groups of songs by the Glee Club. It is also expected that their double quartet will take part on the program, as it has in the past when the clubs have appeared together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD AND YALE GLEE CLUBS TO GIVE CONCERT | 11/2/1929 | See Source »

...veil of gloom which has hovered over the Harvard football camp during the past week seems to have been dissipated. With practically its full strength available for this afternoon game, the Crimson eleven will face the Florida team at 2 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ELEVEN TO FACE FLORIDA IN CRUCIAL TES | 11/2/1929 | See Source »

...former alumni secretary of the University of Michigan, in an article in the current Scribners finds that the college alumni of this country are wrongly criticized in showing interest only in football games. He lays the fault for this restriction of interest squarely upon the colleges themselves. In the past, athletics and endowment drives have been the only connections by which the colleges have attempted to keep in touch with their alumni. In the future, be predicts, the colleges will make a definite attempt to keep up academic relations with their graduates. giving them the opportunity to continue their college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND CHILDHOOD | 11/2/1929 | See Source »

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