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Word: statemente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...harmful. I would appeal to them, and direct my appeal to their parents, for it is generally as a result of parental influence that they find themselves in college. In practically every case of serious maladjustment which I have discovered among college students, I have come ultimately to the statement, 'I didn't really want to come to college; I just did it to please the family.' It develops that the student has been persuaded into college by his parents and his contemporaries (who have in turn been influenced by their parents), and then found himself in an environment which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Dean William I. Nichols Writes in Atlantic Monthly on the Convention of Going to College | 9/28/1929 | See Source »

Aside from the Marx brothers, and there are only three of them who count, Harpo, Groucho, and Chico, the show is a better than average musical production. Such a statement is distinctly damning it with faint praise; but it need not worry any one because these gentlemen so overshadow the remaining performers and performances that "the show aside from the Marx brothers" need not even be taken into consideration. They are the evening's entertainment, and better could not be asked. They pull exactly the same sort of gag which they did in "The Cocoanuts...

Author: By P. C. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 9/27/1929 | See Source »

...simple sounding statement, to be sure, but one which taken in its larger aspects will mean more to football followers in general than any since the adoption of the oblong ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Retirement of Joe Forecast Becomes a Reality as the Famous Prognosticator Marries--Successor Sought | 9/26/1929 | See Source »

Toronto, Canada, Sept. 23, 1929. The problem of crime in the United States is much more far reaching than even penologists have dreamed, according to a statement issued here yesterday by Sheldon Glueck of the faculty of the University law school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLUECK SAYS CRIME IN U. S. HAS FAR REACHING ASPECTS | 9/24/1929 | See Source »

...whether he would issue a permit for the presentation of the "Strange Interlude" in Cambridge or not, but it is expected that the Cambridge authorities would be considerably more liberal-minded than the notoriously puritan officials of Boston town. When interviewed last night, Mayor Quinn declined to issue any statement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "STRANGE INTERLUDE" MAY PLAY IN CAMBRIDGE | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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