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Word: sayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...placing the rubber stamp of official censorship on the Harvard Dramatic Club's play, "Fiesta", the Boston city authorities have adduced evidence to bolster the suspicion of their fair-minded intelligence in matters which they say affect public morality. Their action clicked with that quick efficiency which is prompted by eagerness, or at least by a thorough relish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CENSOR NONSENSE | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

Professor Burbank assured the Crimson reporter, however, that all the intermediate courses in the field,--that is to say, those which are open both to graduates and undergraduates--will continue to have a reading period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ECONOMICS A TO STEER CLEAR OF READING PERIOD | 12/13/1928 | See Source »

Napoleon's Barber. Those who know Author Arthur Caesar, on whose drama this picture is :based, say he is a radical and a pacifist, a definition which makes it hard to understand why Mr. Caesar should have made Napoleon appear a jolly general whose devotion to his country is rivalled only by his love for his wife, Josephine. But regardless of whether or not Mr. Caesar has pilloried his own ideas and regardless of what you think of Napoleon you can understand the predicament of a barber who, burning with hatred of his master, finds himself passing a sharp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Mother Stoner, too, organizer of the World League for the Promotion of Genius,! had something to say: "Poor girl! It is a terrible thing to be in the public eye as a so-called prodigy. No one who has any sense wants to be appearing in the papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prodigy | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...word "debunk." Patriots, private as well as professional, cavilled at his .debunking of George Washington, will carp at the same treatment of Grant. Of Washington, Author Woodward replied he had made no effort to "show him up"; had merely tried to humanize him. Of Grant he will no doubt say the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anti-climax | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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