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Word: smalling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scouted. As long as there was an agreement between the A. A's of the different universities, there was nothing much to be said about the situation except that a football scout was a questionable individual much like a cigar-passing Washington lobbyist. I imagined him to be a small, dark haired man with a false mustache and an evil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

There are two main groups of people in the world, those who think and those who do things. A third class, those who think and then do things is as small in numbers as it is important in effect. Obviously Mr. Soares was pondering some method for enlarging the latter group when he allowed himself to be quoted in the CRIMSON as favoring some plan for the closer incorporation of extracurricular activities with the academic work of American Colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OIL AND WATER | 11/14/1929 | See Source »

...Faculty, the Tutors, and the Undergraduates, ensures a catholicity of taste, and the aim of the committee has always been to meet the needs of the present generation of students, as well as to assemble, as far as human fallibility permits, books of permanent literary value. There are few small libraries that can offer a better representation of every form of contemporary literary activity. It is a pity that the Union Library is not more widely known and used. L. Denis Peterkin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Books | 11/13/1929 | See Source »

Watchers of the skies in the wee small hours this week may see the most important, if not the most spectacular, meteoric display of 30 years, according to Dr. W. J. Fisher, of the Harvard Observatory. The long missing Leonids, one of the most brilliant of meteor showers, should begin to be visible tomorrow night, between the hours of midnight and dawn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Star-Gazers May See Meteor Display Between Midnight and Dawn This Week--Astronomers Expect Return of Leonids | 11/13/1929 | See Source »

...natural to attend anything popular-priced rather hesitantly, especially when the epithet is applied to no refined an object as the opera, but the work of the Cosmopolitan Opera Company, at the Arlington for two weeks, leaves absolutely no basis for this fear. A small theater and stage, simple settings, singers not yet widely known--these might be handicaps for such an organization; instead they are transformed into positive aids. The grandiose atmosphere that surrounds the Chicago Company's midwinter performances is lacking; in its place is an enthusiastic group of singers and a fully appreciative audience...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/13/1929 | See Source »

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