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Word: startingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard University and Freshman track teams will start regular practice for the winter season next Monday, without the services of Coach E. L. Farrell, who is recuperating from an operation for appendicitis at the Brooks Hospital in Brookline...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACK TEAM GATHERS FOR WINTER PRACTICE | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

...have had brought to my notice an issue of your paper containing an interview with Dr. C. N. Greenough, in which he seems to think that I have, in my annual report, which was somewhat widely reported in the press, intimated that Harvard is about to start small university colleges. He rightly maintains that the new "houses" are not colleges at all. In this he is right. I have said in that report: "It is purposed to divide Harvard undergraduates into houses where they may life in closer contact with resident scholars. To many, the plan seems less significant than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unimportant? | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

...company. Many of them are still with her. Her backers included Otto Herman Kahn, Adolph Lewisohn, Ralph Pulitzer, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. She opened on a Monday night in 1926 with Jacinto Benavente's Saturday Night, gave Tchekov's The Three Sisters on Tuesday and, scorning to start gradually, added some Ibsen later in the week. The Pictorial Review Achievement Award for that year ($5,000) helped solve her financial troubles.* Since the first season her project has paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Civic Virtue | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Close to the crenelated, neo-Gothic heart of the University of Chicago is one "Doc" Bratfish. Few Chicago men-students in the last 25 years have not had a shave & haircut from him. He it is who each year examines upper lips and fires a gun to start the seniors' mustache-growing contest, rewarding the most luxuriant growth with a shaving mug, the most girlish down with hair restorer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: On the Midway | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...children of today may grow up to witness the magnificent spectacle of a metropolis uprooted overnight with all its residents mad, dead or chemically diseased by next morning. This will be the next World War. How, when, why will it start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Human Over-Production | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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