Search Details

Word: specials (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Friday, they leave Boston on their special train, to continue the trip, which will include most of the large cities of this country and of Canada...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDERGRADUATES TO ADDRESS AUSTRALIAN GROUP TONIGHT | 3/27/1929 | See Source »

...boys composing the tour are all approximately seventeen years of age, and travel resplendent in uniforms, marching upon occasion accompanied by their own band. A special train consisting of three Pullman cars, one club car, and a baggage car, has been employed during their journey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AUSTRALIAN STUDENTS WILL VISIT UNIVERSITY | 3/26/1929 | See Source »

...further than that, it would seem advisable to have the two types of residents sit elbow to elbow in the dining hall. Equally discordant is the idea of a separate commons for the instructors. While the older men might well have a small, auxiliary smoking room for their special use, to establish an individual commons apart from the students spells defeat to any objective of bringing both types of men together in an informal, friendly fashion. Where there must be continued visiting back and forth between two common rooms, the line of least resistance can but result in only occasional...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUT OF TUNE | 3/26/1929 | See Source »

...London's aristocratic Savoy Hotel the Egg Song was played several times, last week, "by special request"; and in common music halls many a tedious comedian reaped undeserved applause by concluding his number with "Eggs! Eggs! Eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Eggs! Eggs! Eggs! | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...learn that the British Medical Research Council last week decried the use of light treatments. There are two general kinds of light used in medicine-heat-producing, generated by carbon filaments; and ultraviolet ray (artificial sunlight) producing, generated by a carbon arc, by a mercury arc, or by special filaments lighting through quartz. Undoubtedly such lights have done good. This is particularly so of the ultraviolet light, used to overcome rickets by direct exposure of puny children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mustard Plaster v. Light | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Previous | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | Next