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Word: returning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object of the film is to supply the demand among Harvard men all over the country that they be kept in touch with the University. Now that the film is available, it is especially valuable where men have not the time to return to Cambridge often. It was made during the fall and winter months of 1928-29 by the University Film foundation, under the direction of J. A. Haeseler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD FILM VISITS HAWAII, CHINA, PAMPAS | 10/8/1929 | See Source »

...higher a full-block building, up to 63 stories on $200-land and 75 stories on $400-land, the greater the percentage of return on investment in such a structure. The limit of profits is 10.25%. Beyond such heights, the investment returns diminish until, on $200-land, a 131-story building would return zero. A 132-story skyscraper would develop a loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Skyscraper Economics | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...axiom of professional tennis that Kozeluh can be beaten by any player who scores his aces twice in succession, a condition made necessary by the fact that Kozeluh is pretty sure to return the first ace. This small, brown Czechoslovakian, who punctuates his game with little whirls of annoyance, and expansive, contagious moments of triumph, has revived the prestige of the backcourt game. Keeping the ball in the corners, he rarely tries for kills but scores by making the other fellow miss. His trick of taking the crowd into his confidence with jokes and bits of pantomime has the double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...this novel enmeshed himself in the Bohemian bedlam of Greenwich Village. There he met two women. Rita was a poetess, incandescent, fitful, tender. They read poetry in Rita's squalid little room until many dawns. But she did not return his love, and when she left the city he sought out Daisy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Proust of Sheridan Square | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...taken from his when he was arrested Friday, wishing to give the bills out at an indoor meeting Sunday. He was informed-that his circulars were secure in the locker of the officer who had taken them from him originally, and that they could not be obtained until his return Sunday morning. Promising to have them for him "Sunday, the officer on night duty told Cohen to come back then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COHEN UNMOLESTED IN BOSTON SPEECH | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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