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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, no amount of nose poking will disprove the plain fact, set forth in my original letter to you, that Coolidge ought to fly with Lindbergh. I repeat also that Roosevelt would have flown with Lindy like a shot, the day Lindbergh got home from Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...course there are lots of plain fellows like me who've got the idea that Harvard is a dignified and aristocratic sort of joint and that Harvard men are different from the rest of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Clowns | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...party of Harvard students is being formed by G. M. Merrill 1G., for a trip to the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain tomorrow afternoon. This expedition is open to any men interested in going over the grounds with Merrill, and the party will leave Robinson Hall at 2.15 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MERRILL TO CONDUCT TRIP TO ARNOLD ARBORETUM TOMORROW | 5/5/1928 | See Source »

...HALF-HEARTED" will never, it seems fairly safe to prophesy, become a classic of English literature, but it is a highly readable, plain novel. There is nothing complicated or enigmatic about the plot or its characters. There is nothing startlingly original, but on the other hand there is little that is annoyingly hackneyed or trite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKENDS | 4/21/1928 | See Source »

...plain fact is that the plan has progressively failed of its purpose. True it sent rubber up to $1.21 in 1925; but in January 1928 the price had declined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Scarcity Scrapped | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

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