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Word: sets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...close friend of Tyrus Cobb and before the latter quit baseball often went to games. He and his wife entertain little, then usually for the younger set in Washington-his daughter is at Bryn Mawr. He is well liked in the Senate, is labeled a "fair" Senator, honest, conscientious, colorless. Every year he makes a few carefully prepared speeches, reads them in a conversational tone without gestures and carefully sends copies to the press gallery for distribution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

While distributing the Socialist circular "Welcome to MacDonald" in Harvard Square early yesterday afternoon, Lawrence B. Cohen, Jr., a Sophomore, President of the Socialist Club, was arrested for violating a city ordinance, brought to the Brattle Square police station, divested of his batch of hand-hills, and finally set at liberty, after being promised a summons to the Third District Court, East Cambridge, for next Thursday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $10,000 DAMAGES AS COHEN GROUNDS ON SQUARE ISLAND | 10/5/1929 | See Source »

Professor Rogers stated that he was glad of an opportunity to "set himself right with the College". He said, "It has been implied that a more professor of civil engineering had no right to criticize Harvard men. However, being a graduate myself, I felt that I had as much right as anyone to discuss the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rogers Clarifies Accusation of Snobbishness Levelled at Harvard--Claims to be Old-Fashioned Individualist | 10/4/1929 | See Source »

...strange tales of his "ether music" preceded him from Europe, doubtless few would have attended his demonstrations in Manhattan (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928). But many of the curious went. They saw a slender, tense person of some 30 years take his stand unaffectedly before an instrument resembling a radio set. Then he adjusted plugs and dials on the box (by which timbre was varied and controlled), moving his hands before two antennae (the right regulating pitch, the left expression), made music which, amplified by a loud speaker, filled the hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pacific Opera | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Immediately after refuelling, the far-famed oriental prophet set off for America with his exact destination unannounced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Extra! Extra! Extra! | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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