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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pitchers are especially strong this year. F. B. Cutts '28, J. N. Barbee '28, R. R. Ketchum '29, and Howard Whitmore '29 have been showing a good deal of stuff in the indoor workouts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL TEAM TO TREK SOUTHWARD | 3/23/1928 | See Source »

...Advocate editor once said to a candidate: "You have imitated the Sherwood Anderson stuff, and quite successfully, too. But we won't want that sort of thing. It's too casy to write." In substance this is what Mr. Chase has too easy to write." In substance this is what Mr. Chase has to say about Anderson. This is a critical study of a man who wrote his first novel at forty, leaving the swivel chair of presidency in an Elyria, Ohio, paint factory to build himself a new life of meaning...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: Mystery --- Fantasy | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

What a good thing it would be for this bumptious writer of cheap stuff in TIME to attend the Willis-for-President rally on the evening of March 7, where Hardin, Allen, Hancock, Logan, Putnam, Anglaize and many other fine counties in the state will be represented and do some "booming" for Willis, something which seems to hurt TIME terribly. There is not a thug, saloon parasite, grafter, bootlegger, and not a "big wet" in the state of Ohio who will not welcome with glee the slurs which TIME has spread out before the people. If I am not mistaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 12, 1928 | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...notion that organization in education means more than anything else. Educationally we are a nation of credit hunters and degree worshippers. Studies are considered mere payments demanded for the fun of being in school and the later privileges of college life. The student knows he can drop the 'stuff' he is studying as soon as he has 'cashed in' at studying as soon as he has 'cashed in' at the entrance gates what he is learning in school. With such a system there is no searching inquiry into educational values, and the true worth of study is obscured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICAN SCHOOLS FLAYED BY HOLMES | 3/7/1928 | See Source »

...Tony so much that Natalie found him no longer pliant to her attractions. He took her back to Gortion in the face of a finger-pointing Berkenmeer, left the assets of the aviation company (which Gortion had purchased) at zero, hopped a freight for Peoria, saying: "Jeeze! . . . That society stuff was beginning to get on my nerves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Parachute | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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