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Word: puts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trouble originates from those who would like to seem to be what they are not. Carelessness in registration accounts for a considerable number of errors in the University records. Plain mistakes in spelling are often found in these records. Failure to put the last name first in registration is the cause of much confusion, making it quite possible for a man to be registered under two different names in various offices of the college. This season's record for mistakes is now held by one man who has achieved the doubtful triumph of being registered under three names...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aspiring Harvard Students Change Names in Attempt to Scale Ladder of Social Success--Others Fail in Spelling | 10/17/1929 | See Source »

With the exception of the four seriously injured players, Harper, Douglas, Levin and Greeley, only Myerson and Davis did not appear in uniform today. They are expected back today ready for a likely dummy scrimmage against Army plays, as put on by the seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEVEN HAS EASY DAY AS IT POINTS FOR ARMY TILT | 10/16/1929 | See Source »

...status of affairs is clearly shown when it is explained that the condemnation of just one judge is sufficient to put any book on the banned list, which now contains 759 items. A government customs official, after looking through Rousseau's "Confessions," admitted that he saw nothing bad in them, but was forced, nevertheless, to refuse admittance for the book. He said that no matter what he might think, he could not do anything about letting the book into the country. Another unusual case is that in which a four hundred year old edition of the "Decameron" of Boccaccio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHILLIPS FAILS IN TRY TO OBTAIN CENSORED FRENCH LITERATURE | 10/16/1929 | See Source »

...know, the audience does about fifty percent of the work in an ordinary performance. A good, hearty, infectious laugh out front will put a whole new aspect into the action on the stage. When you know that you have the audience with you the play fairly rolls along. But if the house is feeling glum, then you have to double your efforts and cheer them up--put them in the spirit of the thing. There can be no such close relationship between audience and actor in the talking pictures, and with that relationship most of the fascination of the stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/16/1929 | See Source »

...know who or what the owners of the decorated flivyer are but it does seem as though the Institute of 1770, after all these years, would have attained sophistication enough to put aside childish things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/16/1929 | See Source »

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