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Word: rule (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think that in the Latin countries the effort of women's indirect rule is to improve culture, and to raise the estate of the arts. Culture is accumulative," the Count remarked, "and women are an accumulative lot. Men, on the other hand, are restless, and inclined to discard what they have used for a time, and when there is such constant replacement there cannot be culture in the real sense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICA NOW LIES UNDER CLUTCHES OF FEMININITY | 1/26/1928 | See Source »

Questioned about the Soviet rule in Russia, the European philosopher answered that the Bolshevist regime had come to stay. "Most revolutions are mere retrogressions. There is nothing new under the sun." Explaining this remark he said that for every thing that seems new, startling, and modern today, conditions almost exactly analagous can be discovered by searching back far enough through history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICA NOW LIES UNDER CLUTCHES OF FEMININITY | 1/26/1928 | See Source »

...news. Nonetheless, the title story, about a gallant deserter who, undemolished by a firing squad, returns after the late War to rescue his inamorata from marriage with an ogrish profiteer, is able romantic melodrama. Most of the other stories have the same rank in the same class. As a rule, they also have some connection with the late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Charades | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...young Paderewski had little in his favor. There was no musical background. His mother died when he was three. His father, a Polish farmer, was banished to Siberia for his mutterings against Russian rule. The boy wanted to be a pianist but he had small, stubby hands that would not reach an octave. His first teacher was a violinist with scant knowledge of the keyboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Thunderer | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...summary follows: HARVARD 1931 ST. JOHN'S Johnson, r. f. l. g., Harigan Dutton, Farrell, l. f. r. g., Capozzi, Deverice Mcshady, Rule, c. c., Driscoll, Beattie Foshay, r. g. l. f., Dion, Szeszjowski Rex, Berkley, l. g. r. f., Machler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN BASKETBALL TEAM LOSES TO ST. JOHN'S | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

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