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Word: points (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hearst's editors took care to point out that the Hearst modification contest had attracted more than three times the number of entries which were submitted last autumn in William Crapo Durant's enforcement contest for the same size prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Act of God | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...prepares his orders for allowable production. His most recent order is calculated to clip some 200,000 barrels per day from California's oil flow, bring production down to around 600,000 barrels per day or less. The California method of production limitation may well prove a starting point for the discussion at Colorado Springs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Oil Contrivance | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...suggested to the artists, required the highest order of imaginative creation. Though individuals may criticize details of the composition and symbolism, none can deny that the artist has been extremely successful in his main purpose, which was to produce a great decorative composition aptly conceived and executed from the point of view of architectural setting.Death and Victory--By John Singer Sargent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SARGENT MURALS WELL RECEIVED AT FIRST APPEARANCE | 6/8/1929 | See Source »

...this connection, it may be well to point out that in 1917 we had at Harvard some few of the same type of various young ass that wrote this "editorial" yet in such a small minority that they were entirely lost sight of when Harvard men began to flock to the colors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trial by Epithet | 6/8/1929 | See Source »

...welcome the Englishmen again. We trust that the exchange of ideas which will inevitably take place will convince the visitors that all true Americans desire to maintain the best of cordial relations between the two countries. Those who have ridiculed the alleged advantages of such contests from this point of view would do well to exclude from their lists the Oxford-Cambridge invasion. There is nothing quite like it in the athletic relations of the two countries. This is no Ryder Cup team bent only on victory...

Author: By Yale News, | Title: Welcome to the Englishmen | 6/8/1929 | See Source »

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