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Word: patrous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine Harvard men relies on the schools regularly; two out of three when they wish to cram for examinations. The schools openly boast that they teach certain subjects better than the college. Among their patrous schools join a large number of honors men, and they take credit for raising the college's percentage of honors students from 28.5 per cent in 1930-31 to 41.3 per cent last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...else. Say, has that man get pull! Of course, the Metropolitan is becoming more than a theatre. Dancing in the Grand Lounge affords an agreeable interlude for those Jazz crazed youngsters unable to understand the classics of Sevitzky: who, by the way, is said to be Koussevitzky's nephew. Patrous taking in a matince can try their cigarette stained hands at ping pong. We have yet to investigate the rumors that there are piano selections and bridge lessons available some-where amid the marble pilasters...

Author: By F. T. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

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