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Word: spendings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dickens! Why? For the reason that the humor of Stephen Leacock persists because it is based on a deep understanding of the human mind and a sympathy for human frailty. If only more of our present day writers would turn their attention to the picturing of individual characters and spend some time in abstract analysis of character, we should have more real literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Persistent Humor | 4/14/1923 | See Source »

Since many of the cast of "Take a Brace" had made plans to spend the summer in Europe negotiations for the proposed Western trip have not as yet been definitely concluded. However, the New York theatrical producer. Laurence Sehwab '14, who has procured an option on the production has already mapped out the following itinerary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENTATIVE WESTERN ITINERARY | 4/11/1923 | See Source »

...water color, has turned his talent to picture postcards. In Philadelphia, five-cent postcards by Pennell and Thornton Oakley are being exhibited. The British Society of Architects offers three annual scholarships, valued at ?300 each, open to British subjects under 40. The holder of the first is required to spend six months of architectural study in America-a graceful compliment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Hardship | 4/7/1923 | See Source »

...bringing the students together at lectures during daylight. Now that modern systems, of lighting have come into use, however, such a necessity has been removed and there seems to be no reason for forfeiting the precious hours of the morning to lectures and classes. The student is required to spend his fresh, vigorous hours trudging on daily pilgrimages from shrine to shrine, bowing for fifty-three minute intervals before this diety or that and scribbling hieroglyphs which are to be deciphered and interpreted at some future date. Then he is encouraged to consume a large part of the afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 4/5/1923 | See Source »

...five members of the University Instrumental Clubs will play in the club's last concert of the season at Music Hall, Fall River, at 8 o'clock on Monday evening. The concert will be followed by a dance which will last until 1 o'clock and the players will spend the night in Fall River, returning to Cambridge the next morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS TO PERFORM IN FALL RIVER | 3/31/1923 | See Source »

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