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Word: sayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three days later, emerging from conference with Mr. Hoover, Senator Smoot felt obliged to say that there would be "no general revision of the tariff law at the extra session." Thus did Mr. Smoot show consistency. He supported his Presi-dent?future as well as present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: The Tariff-Makers | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Jackson Barnett's door. A well-dressed white woman stepped out. She said she was interested in oil and asked him to go for a ride. It was getting dark; he did not want to go. But he was a good-natured Indian who could not say no. He grinned and went. They drove to Okemeh, 18 miles away, and there spent the night. She was not a bad looking white woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: An Indian and His Oil | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...lingo of the steersman seasoned, perhaps, with a spicy bit of Billinsgate will comprise part of the academic career of Harvard coxswains during the next few weeks. Not that the coxes will commit to memory the right thing to say at the right time in the right place to the right people. They will rather be aided in acquiring such a fluent vocabulary that other crews will stop in amazement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prospective Coxswains to Gain Steersman's Lingo Seasoned With Billinsgate--Special Course Given to Aid Vocabulary | 2/16/1929 | See Source »

...appropriation of seven and a half million dollars for establishing an Institute of Human Relations at Yale, whose spirit will dominate that university in the future is an innovation, to say the least. The general object of the plan is to combine theoretical and practical sciences in analyzing and benefitting human life and relations. A comprehensive study of man in his relations to his fellow man is believed to be the key to understanding the individual. Knowledge of such theoretical sciences as biology, psychology, and sociology will be used in conjunction with what is known of such applied sciences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE YALE INSTITUTE | 2/16/1929 | See Source »

President Lowell will speak at 2 o'clock in Harvard 6 on the subject "Facts and Dogmas of Democracy," and the Vagabond hardly needs say that anyone missing such an opportunity no longer deserves the privilege of wearing the vagabonder's insignia--curiosity rampart on a background of roller-skates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/14/1929 | See Source »

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