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Word: reade (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hope is that conditions in this country -where there are more mentally sick in asylums than there are students in colleges-will be better appreciated, that more people will read ''A Mind That Found Itself," a true story of absorbing interest, and learn what wide movement also started by Mr. Beers will receive the attention, sympathy and support it deserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...Every high school and college in the nation should have this periodical on file in its library and every current events class of our schools should require that it be regular reading. Every man in the least interested in what is going on in the world and especially the busy man who has but little time to devote to reading is missing something if he doesn't read TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...have no imagination have been troubled by the statement in II Samuel 21:19 where the killing of "Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam" is ascribed to one Elhanan. To smooth over the discrepancy, the passage is often made to read "the brother of Goliath the Gittite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Semitic Exaggeration | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...ignorance of the very nature of General Examinations. If he believes that a "knowledge of Shakespeare-(sic) note by note" is sufficient to gain a degree summa cum laude in English, I advise him to study the requirements for a degree in any literature, ancient or modern, and to read the examinations set for those concentrating in such fields. This applies with equal force to all fields in which General Examinations are given, with the distinct purpose of testing ability to coordinate and compare the varied features of several periods of history or several divisions of human knowledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Than Cum | 12/7/1928 | See Source »

Though his selections have not yet been announced. Professor Copeland will read among other thing stories, and poems appropriate to the Christmas season. Last year the reading contained selections from "The Copeland Reader," including "The 'Eathen" by Rudyard Kipling, and "Christmas Afternoon," by Robert Benchley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Copeland to Read | 12/6/1928 | See Source »

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