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Word: seriousness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...city of Cambridge prides itself on its industrial progress, and justly, for while most of New England has been undergoing a serious business slump, Cambridge has seen new and prosperous factories rising within its limits. The latest indication of the city's progress is the painting of a huge sign, in ten-foot letters, on the roof of one of its factories, to signify to the airplane routes of the future that Cambridge lies below...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOWN AND GOWN | 3/9/1928 | See Source »

...exposed. By thorough investigation it has been ascertained that the cushions in the chapel pews, unduly hard and cold in the early morning, have enforced many absences. In fact, students of poor physique must needs forego the privilege of morning worship by reason of cramps and chills of a serious nature, derived therefrom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PARADISE REGAINED | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

...would like to make a serious effort to cut down the cost of government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Oltio's Davey | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...lecturing he was unquestionably able to create an Allied and later a U. S. mass-sympathy for Czechoslovakia. One successful move was to exploit the arrest of his own daughter Alice by Austro-Hungarian officials, for "people argued that when even women were imprisoned our movement must be serious. Throughout America women petitioned the President to intervene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS ABROAD: Empire minus Republic | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

Author Merz, 34, Yale graduate, editorial writer for the New York World, contributor to magazines, has a little black mustache, a serious look. His book is the choice of the Literary Guild for February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Band Wagon | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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