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Word: set (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Wachter's charges started off in a hurry to run up their large total and didn't let up throughout the game. Despite the fact that a few set-up shots were missed and other early-season misplays cropped up Harvard's play was practically up to mid-season form...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPEEDY QUINTET DOWNS B. U. RIVALS | 12/14/1929 | See Source »

...released by the Foundation are not necessarily of their own production. From time to time films of a real scientific value are acquired from others. They are all edited and titled by the organization before release. All the acquisitions must conform to a high standard which the Foundation has set for its work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Warren Relates the Adventures of Film Foundation Operators | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

According to an old tradition that the property of Harvard University shall be surveyed and that a complete and up to date set of prints of Harvard's property and buildings shall be made every 30 years, work has now been started at the instruction of the Maintenance Department to re-survey all of Harvard. The Boston firm of Aspinwall and Lincoln is now gathering statistics preparatory to drawing up a new set of plans for this purpose. The report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD BEING RE-SURVEYED ACCORDING TO OLD CUSTOM | 12/10/1929 | See Source »

Many a motion picture studio set after being used for one big picture is revamped for a lesser one. In London last week a new cinema company, World Studio Center, Ltd., announced it would use the same set not for many pictures, but for six versions of the original, each in a different language, each made by a different company. Through this cooperation of foreign producers, World Studio hopes to cut its costs 30%, successfully to fight U. S.-made films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: World Studio Center, Ltd. | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...curriculum was set up with two courses, a stiff educational one to prepare "career girls" for the Bryn Mawr examinations, a less strenuous one in letters and the arts for misses planning to take their places in Society. But each & every girl must pass an examination to get into the school. And each & every one is taught that character, competence, self-reliance come before Career or Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Foxcroft's Accolade | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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