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Word: stills (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hereabouts, and much retold, was an early proof of the quick-thinking faculty Doolittle has so often exhibited in flying. A friend of mine who saw him "sail out" at Cleveland says that many a pilot near the hangars said "Even if he is a caterpillar, he's still the greatest in the air." The hearsay evidence may not be admitted- but I saw the knockout myself. W. A. BREWER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...remember well an occasion when the hose was turned on me. As Dean of the College I was telling the Faculty at the final meeting of the year the records of those candidates for the degree of A.B. who had not met all the requirements. One youth was still deficient in Freshman prescribed English, in which he had failed annually. I believe that in other respects his record was clear. When presenting his case I had to admit his apparent hopelessness in this one subject; but I must have laid such stress as I could on what he had accomplished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Briggs, Disciple of Eliot, Writes on "Greatest Man He Ever Knew" in Article Rich With Anecdotes | 10/26/1929 | See Source »

...address to the business men of Harvard Square, he told of Harvard Square in its earlier days and of the permission that he got from President Walker to put gas into Holworthy Hall as an experiment. 'Those pipes in Holworthy Hall,' said he, 'still belong to the Cambridge Gas Company; but I doubt if they know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Briggs, Disciple of Eliot, Writes on "Greatest Man He Ever Knew" in Article Rich With Anecdotes | 10/26/1929 | See Source »

...spite of the acknowledged improvement of the course it is still one which the sub-freshman will do well to take steps to avoid. His chances of getting one of the really good section men are not great, and it would be well if the whisper still flew about the preparatory school quadrangles that seventy-five percent in English Cp. 4 outclasses ninety-five in any other subject as far as actual value received is concerned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DANGEROUS SHOALS | 10/26/1929 | See Source »

...start of the afternoon would hardly lead an earnest football follower to the classroom in preference to the pre-game practice. Of course the present October must be concluded with the last quarter of the game a matter for investigation in the Sunday sports section; but posterity is still to be considered, and in its behalf the faculty might choose to accomplish thirty minutes of daylight saving before next autumn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWILIGHT THOUGHTS | 10/25/1929 | See Source »

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