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Word: strongely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this defense several times to score, ringing up a total of 22 points by the end of the first period, while the Middlebury outfit having little difficulty in scoring, once it got the ball, shot a total of 21. Throughout the game, Harvard's play was characterized by a strong driving attack, and a weak, unorganized defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIDDLEBURY LOSES TO HARVARD FIVE 41 TO 31 | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

...strong condemnation of faculty or student government control of college publications was a marked feature of the discussion of the problems of college journalism, which took place at the fourth annual congress of the National Student Federation of America which met toward the end of December," stated R. H. Field '26, Harvard representative at the convention, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter recently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIELD REPORTS ON N.S.F.A. AT ANNUAL CONVENTION | 1/8/1929 | See Source »

Smart British sahibs of Calcutta affected unconcern, when the Hindu Congress met, 6,000 strong, within strolling distance of the leafy Meidan, where sahibs and mem-sahibs take their aristocratic air of an evening. Actually anxious talk buzzed all up and down the English clubs and offices in Calcutta's busy Chawringhee. It was surely no good sign when the 6,000 delegates and their more than 11,000 sympathizers proceeded to burn huge piles of Made-in-England goods before sitting to business. Presiding hysterically over the bonfire, Pandit Nehru cried: "Hail, soldiers of Swaraj [Self-Determination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Mahatma, Pandit & Khan | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Farewells. Old and new members of the World staff gave Editor Swope a farewell dinner at the Hardware Club on Broadway. Strong men were on the point of bursting into tears when Alexander Woollcott, famed dramatic critic once with the World, relieved the situation with some good stories. A volume of some 160 letters from staff members was presented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Renaud's World | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...business of placing the condemned man in the electric chair is quickly and simply done. Then-"as the switch is thrown into its socket there is a sputtering drone, and the body leaps as if to break the strong leather straps that hold it. Sometimes a thin gray wisp of smoke pushes itself out from under the helmet that holds the head electrode, followed by the faint odor of burning flesh. The hands turn red, then white, and the cords of the neck stand out like steel bands. After what seems an age, but is. in fact, only two minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sing Sing | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

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