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Word: recollect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Weeks? Would Henry J. Weeks accept a ticket?-ED. Ex-Buck Sirs: If the ex-Y-Tycoons; real, semi and pseudo, say they gave away 26 million francs and won the war, that's that. All you ex-bucks who believe it, stand on your head. I neither recollect nor have I ever heard of any buck who ever received, gratis, anything from the Y except - -. He got lots of that. In fact he has heard this brand of F. S. Edmonds and F. H. Jamison overseas and ever since. Same old songs of self-pity and sacrifice, patting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...allow no national tradition to die quickly, least of all one so bone of their flesh. And America's fond tolerance of collegiatism, if its cause were removed, might bring psychological chaos in its wake. Moreover, it is believed that through John Held alone do youth and age alike recollect emotion in tranquility. To prevent the catastrophic shock of sudden vanishing, as well as for auld lang syne, haven was furnished collegiatism--in the back pages of Judge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAST LAUGH | 5/24/1928 | See Source »

...mystery which envelopes the small mountainous country of Albania sits Fan Stylian Noli '12. Harvard graduate, author, translator, orthodox priest, bishop, Premier of Albania and liberal, this flery patrial keeps his adversary. Ashmet Zogu president of Albania pale and nervous by his constant infrignes. Well enough does Zogu recollect the day in 1924 and 1925 when he himself was a refugee hiding in the fastness of the Albanian mountains waiting his chance to strike. Finally it came, and crossing the frontier at the head of an army composed of Mohammedan tribesmen and Jugo-Slavian soldiers he defeated Fan Noli...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fan Noli, Harvard Graduate, Has Been Tempestuous Force in Albanian Politics--Danger Yet Lurks Under Scrivener's Hood | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...principal objection to "Mem" being used for this purpose will be that its very atmosphere seems to dampen any show of enthusiasm for gayety; those who argue thus point to the sombre but dignified array of portraits on the walls as evidence. I distinctly recollect hearing a "long Harvard" given in Memorial Hall on one occasion that would put to shame any cheer heard in the Stadium of late years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 1/6/1925 | See Source »

...seventh games of the World's Series (baseball) with the final triumph of the Senators. Afterwards the President, tinctured by the ecstasy of the Capital, issued a statement: "Of course, I am not speaking as an expert or as a historian of baseball, but I do not recollect a more exciting World's Series than that which was finished this afternoon. The championship was not won until the twelfth inning of the last game. This shows how evenly the teams were matched. I have only the heartiest of praise to bestow upon the individual players of both teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Oct. 20, 1924 | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

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