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Word: princeton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University players will meet Yale on November 18, and will subsequently compete in the Metropolitan Class League of Boston during the winter season. In this tournament Harvard was runner-up in 1926-27. The University will also enter the intercollegiate matches against Yale. Princeton, and West Point in New York during the Christmas vacation, the first board to be played by Chevalier, who is the individual Intercollegiate League champion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHESS PLAYERS PLAN AMBITIOUS SCHEDULE | 10/11/1927 | See Source »

...this new play Speakeasy. He wrote it in collaboration with one George Rosener, sometimes an actor in musical shows. Together they evolved the tale of going, going, going, but not quite gone wrong young woman. The heroine's enemy is a wicked crook; her savior, a stainless Princeton youth who slays the enemy. The play is sordid, the cast plenty good enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays In Manhattan: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...Princeton had usual difficulty with Amherst. A 60-yard touchdown and a forward pass from Earl Baruch, which Lowry caught to score, were essential in a 14-0 victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football Matches: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

Comparisons between Princeton's newly enforced library hours and those of other colleges are bound to be odious-more odious even than is the usual wont of comparison. And Harvard may be expected to furnish a basis for a good part of these statistical presumptions. From eight in the morning until midnight are the doors of the Princeton library open for admittance; from morn to midnight may one finger leaves and copy notes; from midnight to morn may the goodies mop and scrub...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIME AND TIDE | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

Since there is no demand for longer hours at Widener and since the scholastic records of Harvard compare not unfavorably with those of Princeton, the text must be found in other sources than the punching of time clocks. It would hardly be safe ground to presume that Harvard undergraduates read more quickly than those of Princeton likewise would it be foolish to announce arbitrarily that powers of assimilation are variable in given groups of young men. He who requires explanations with his argument must needs seek elsewhere. Unless he seizes upon the enormous reading facilities-including both space for readers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIME AND TIDE | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

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