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Word: said (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colleges, Professor Rogers said, "worshipped marks", but he added that an A.B. degree merely indicated that the student had agreed with his professors during his four years at school, Grades make a battleground of the classroom, he said, and are a "disgrace to scientific education and must be done away with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Holmes Refutes Rogers' Statement That Scholastic Grades are the Mark of the Dunce Cap as Exaggeration | 10/22/1929 | See Source »

...Portland, Me., Herbert L. Pye, 61, ashman, fell heir last week to $1,500,000. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ashman | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Newsgatherers searched for Ashman Pye, found him toting barrels of cinders from a cellar to his one-horse wagon. Said he to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ashman | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...pelican gulp fish. He sat down and let four orang-outang infants clamber over him and played with them as an equal. From the rear he looked at the young elephants- "like forlorn village children in the Sunday pants of a corpulent parent." Only the chimpanzees disturbed him. Said he: "If I see them riding . . . the animal atmosphere is dispelled for me for ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild Life | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Oglala' laid 56,000 mines during the World War," said Captain D. C. Bingham U. S. N., when visited Friday aboard his ship at the Navy Yard, Charlestown. "But you'd never know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Captain of Mine Layer "Oglala" Explains Workings of T.N.T. Sea Bomb--Ship Built in 1907 for Eastern Steamship Lines | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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