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Word: soiling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become more macabre when viewed in the light of the apparently minor incidents on which they are invariably based. Beneath all this past exchange of blows, Harvard plays Princeton on the Yale golf course today. A natural corollary might be a meeting of Harvard and Princeton undergraduates on Yale soil to bury the hatchet. The suggestion is not new. It was proferred by the Yale Student Council at the time of the break. It might still succeed on one condition: that it be an undergraduate meeting. Let the alumni stay home and cut paper dolls. Yale Daily News

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Friendly Game of Golf | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Members of the University will be admitted to a geology conference this evening at 8 o'clock in the Mineralogical Lecture Room of the University Museum. Professor Carl Teryaghi of M.I.T. will lecture on "The Boundary between Engineering Geology and Soil Physics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Geological Conference to be Held | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

Many, many years ago, before the two deadly products of the White Man-fire-arms and fire-water-had dispossessed the Indian from his native soil, the Red Men, in what is now New Hampshire, frequently visited the Place of the Swift Waters, and particularly one portion of those waters known as the High Place for Fish. In the Indian language, Place of the Swift Waters was Merru-asquam-ack, and High Place for Fish was Namos-kee-et. The Whites translated the former into Merrimac and the latter into Amoskeag. So when, along in 1831, a big cotton mill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: High Place for Fish | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Marion Talley wants to milk the cows, so she is leaving the brilliant glitter of the Diamond Horse shoe-forever. According to her story, Miss Talley was suddenly inspired to snub a new contract from the Metropolitan. She is a fatalist and destiny calls her to the soil where she once spent three months of her childhood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "IT IS DESTINY" | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Hoch soil er leben, Hock soil er leben, Hoch soil er leben. Dreimal Hoch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: In The Slough | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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