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Word: pleasant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...genuine Yale type an ogotistical one? Is there a Yale type? Is the genuine Princeton type a pleasant rather self-effacing one? Above all, is this true of the Harvard man? Don't you honestly thing that someone should step in to tell the truth about these matters? I for one do not agree with Miss Kelley when she says: "Of course, all that education can do is to give you the finest use of your natural advantages. I merely say that Harvard best develops a man's sensitivity and social consciousness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/17/1927 | See Source »

Dean C. N. Greenough made the following statement to the committee: "Men who go out for the Red Book will have a pleasant errand which naturally extends their acquaintance among their classmates. Some of these acquaintances will become friends. Moreover, work for the Red Book is something done for the class, for undoubtedly a good Red Book helps to make a united class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RED BOOK COMPETITIONS GET UNDER WAY TONIGHT | 3/16/1927 | See Source »

...have been more, nor can they ever be less. Today, I have no time to punctuate my life with other than work, but in the past, now the long ago past, when I was free to pick and choose my style of writing, I often found the parenthesis a pleasant way to punctuate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Women | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

...Royal House of Braganza-Coburg was deposed in the person of King Manoel II. He now resides at Twickenham, near London, on his pleasant estate, Fulwell Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: 18th Revolution | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...humdinger.' "I had made something of a study of Russia last spring on a trip with my father-in-law, Samuel M. Vauclain, of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and so Mr. Harriman suggested that my wife and I come along with him for a tour. It was extremely pleasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Well-Ordered | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

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