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Word: plastically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flappers more closely than the conquests of Macedonian Alexander; football rally stickers pasted on certain parts of Brown's ill-proportioned equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius; intoxicating liquors, which Parson Faunce refuses to believe his young gentlemen drink; sexy modern novels, instanced by the case of English Instructor Percy ("Plastic Age") Marks who was asked to resign when his college novel reached Parson Faunce's sedate office. Percy Marks complied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fatince Out | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...plays both phases of the role in capital fashion, and as such movies go, "Tempest" is far from poor. Camilla Horn does a Russian princess and the unique Louis Wolheim is again on hand to demonstrate where plastic surgery might have been applied...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 9/27/1928 | See Source »

...York a greater number of concerts at a price within the reach of everyone. It is the wish of the officers that the new orchestra will bear the same relationship to the musical life of the city as the Metropolitan Museum bears to those interested in the graphic and plastic arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Philharmonic-Symphony | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Although the CRIMSON array of diamond dusters has suffered from the in roads of graduation, a careful search of nooks and corners of the building has brought to light some material which, if not promising, is at least plastic. The chief gaps to be filled are in the pitcher's box, around the keystone sack, and in left field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princetonian Invites Harvard Journalists to Settle Diamond Rivalry-Crimson Weakened for Meeting in May | 3/27/1928 | See Source »

...English education which is totally undesirable. There seems to be no greater evil than systematic cramming in the European usage, in this instance, analogous to the American custom. The effects on the college student are stultifying enough to enable one to imagine the mental inertia involved in submitting a plastic child to processes of intellectual indigestion similar to those obtained by patronizing a progressive tutoring school in this country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLASTIC INDIGESTION | 3/13/1928 | See Source »

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