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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walter Scott, when he slept there for a night, fancied that ghosts came eerily to mock at him; but Elizabeth Duchess of York has explicitly scoffed at all such "stuff and nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Royal Bestowal | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Unfortunately, as with the Texas sailors, there is this year, some difference of opinion concerning the merits of certain issues aboard the good ship on which the Army and Navy serve. That is "shipmate stuff" and can hardly be discusses here. It has no bearing on the larger issue. In fact, to a certain extent it simplifies the problem of partisanship, for under the present circumstances, as in later life, the Navy man may give his unqualified support to his Army brother whenever he sallies forth upon the field of glory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KINDRED FEELING BINDS RIVAL SERVICE ACADEMIES TOGETHER AGAINST OUTSIDERS | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...vitally interested to learn of the apparent interest Colonel Charles Lindbergh and Eppes Hawes display in each other. The famous conqueror of the Atlantic loses his vaunted indifference toward the fair sex when in the presence of the effervescent Eppes. Even this change of attitude is front page stuff, you know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Diver & Dancer | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...professors, from busi- ness men, from free-lance writers in Greenwich Village or Stuyvesant Square whose closest connection with a college has been a Row ZZZ seat at the Yale-Maryland game in 1922. The undergraduate press, on its mettle, has oiled its cylinders and turned out bales of stuff. But in most cases a single college, or colleges as a whole, has had to take punishment from individuals whose position made it possible for them to lift up their voice and be sure that it would be heard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Colleges | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...taste the stuff and would you say it was champagne and gin?" he was asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: In Philadelphia | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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