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Word: sented (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover has no great fancy for women in public office. Nevertheless, appreciative of her excellent work in the past, he returned to Jessie Dell, a Georgia Democrat, her resignation as a U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, thus retaining her in office. He also sent back unaccepted the resignation of General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Rejoicing and Gladness | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...Under the clamorous claims of the U.S. drys, consolidated, President Hoover last week grew fretful. Through the press, anonymously he sent forth word that no spectacular or drastic steps would be taken in his law enforcement campaign. He proposed to proceed sanely, to instill in people a respect for all law by education and moral suasion. He sought to avoid specialization on the prohibition law. Wet observers credited him with a shrewd and nimble sidestep. Most embarrassed was Major Edwin B. Hesse of the Washington, D. C., police force, who, with impressive fanfare, had just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Rejoicing and Gladness | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...Monday the subscription price of the Senior Album rises from $9.00 to $10.00. Checks should be made payable to the Senior Album Committee and sent to 16 Massachusetts Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIORS | 3/30/1929 | See Source »

After a period of training in New York men are sent to foreign depots for a brief period--such cities as Manila, Hong Kong, or Tokio, and are then sent out to the end of a railroad or steamboat line, there to serve as the local representative of the Standard system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Business World | 3/30/1929 | See Source »

...Putnam left in October, 1927, as assistant to F. R. Wulsin '12 who had been sent to make anthropological studies in the French Soudan. Entering through the Belgium Congo, Mr. Wulsin was so impressed with the opportunity for research work that he left his associate there to carry out the task. Mr. Putnam spent all last year making observations and collecting native implements and products, which have already been sent to the University Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Natives of Congo Develop Dangerous Craving for Liquor; Marriage Contract Rests on Sufficient Quantity of Goats | 3/28/1929 | See Source »

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