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Word: somes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are no cars at Michigan, and Detroit is over 40 miles away, so there are parties galore within walking distance. Every weekend some one of the important fraternities gives a party; during the football season, there are innumerable social functions which may be more aptly described as brawls. For...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Average Michigan Undergraduate Stays at Home, But Not to Study--Fraternities Compete in Playing Host to Harvard | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

Built on a unique plan, the book starts with a discussion of the machine and an enumeration of some thirty of its essential features. This is followed by an identical analysis of the modern army, which along with the modern short story discussed in the next chapter, reproduces almost exactly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mellow Essays | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

But if "Dance of the Machines" fails to settle most of the questions which it raises, it does serve as a racy presentation of problems which demand the attention of intelligent modern men. The author's racy style cuts sharply into one's mind and the very incisiveness with which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mellow Essays | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

ON the jacket of this recent novel, a statement is made to which we should like to take immediate ex-exception. "The readers of Mr. Weston's first novel will not be surprised by the original manner in which he presents a powerful story"--so runs the brief puff. Well...

Author: By Albert G. Churchill, | Title: Tattered Madonna | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

The ending of the book has some dramatic power. Creda Reid is suddenly freed from one of her major complexes, hatred of her mother, by the unexpected murder of that unpleasant old lady. The nerve doctor assures her that all will be well after this, if she will only learn...

Author: By Albert G. Churchill, | Title: Tattered Madonna | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

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