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Word: post (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...athletics. Fleets of trucks, card indexes, carefully trained players are all part of the machinery. And it is perfectly fitting and proper that athletes should be delicately handled. But debating is another matter, and the innovation adopted by Coach Rowe has merited a front-page notice in the Post. A training-table for the debating team has a certain piquant novelty: it is fraught with delightful possibilities for the time when the conservative orators of the present pass from Paine Hall, and the Freshmen and sub-Freshmen of today, brought up forensically under the new regime, stand in their places...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TALKING TURKEY | 3/15/1928 | See Source »

...what he had done in 1904; pick up the pieces and begin again. After 1904 he had shifted his objective and aimed his efforts at another office. In 1920 he stood pat. Harding offered him a chance to continue in active politics, inviting him to accept the post of Secretary of the Navy. Lowden refused. He knew nothing about the work that had been offered him and was frank enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Presidential Possibilities | 3/13/1928 | See Source »

...readers clamored for a six-day diet. Without interruption it continued, through war and normalcy, to tell of the problems of Dicky Graham, temperamental artist, and his wife, Madge-800 words a day for 13 years. Today it has a million readers in 200 newspapers (including the Chicago Evening Post, Indianapolis Star, Minneapolis Star, Buffalo Times, Erie, Pa., Times). Syndicated by the Newspaper Feature Service, Inc., of Manhattan, it has also been translated into Spanish for El Mundo of Havana, Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 3,000,000 Words | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...Author was schooled and schooled others in English at the University of Illinois. He is now an editorial writer for the New York World, having also served the New York Evening Post, Sun and The Nation. In 1924 he published The American During and After the Revolution. Mr. Nevins will be 38 this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Fr | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...General Characteristics of Modern Sculpture," Professor Post, New Fogg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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