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Word: pleased (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Neither Siki nor McTigue showed sufficient skill or savagery to warrant the championship. The early rounds of the fight bored the crowd although their favorite, McTigue, was steadily outpointing the black champion. Siki showed commendable courage but a technical ignorance of his profession. The 17th round roused the Celtic spectators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: McTigue-Siki | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

The zealous social service workers of Phillips Brooks House are missing an opportunity. Instead of going to distant Roxbury or South Boston they might save themselves carfare and do Cambridge a good turn by opening a campaign to Clean Up Harvard Square. The muckers that haunt its precincts are a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHERE CHARITY BEGINS | 12/1/1921 | See Source »

"Madam" is cheerful reading. Wellspring and well-written it tell it pleas ant tale pleasantly.

Author: By R. D. E., | Title: AN ENGLISH TALE OF LON DON AFTER THE WAR | 5/6/1921 | See Source »

Massachusetts Hall was started in 1718 and finished in 1720. The Province of Massachusetts heeded the repeated pleas of President John Leveret of Harvard for another building and appropriated 3,500 pounds to be used to erect "a fair and goodly house of brick." The province was poor in those...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOUBLE CENTENARY OF OLDEST AMERICAN COLLEGE BUILDING | 1/23/1920 | See Source »

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