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Word: subjects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, as in upon the White House rolled a worldwide rumble of praise for the U. S. President who had suddenly freshened a stale subject, that U. S. President looked pleased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: International Week | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Marry the Man. Playwright Jean Archibald's comedy has a sexy headstart in its subject, companionate marriage, but it soon loses ground and does not come in a winner. Mollie Jeffries thinks that she and her Gregory will always enjoy a paradoxical combination of freedom and affection. But Gregory nobly yearns for the stabilizing responsibilities of true matrimony. Therefore he announces his forthcoming marriage to a fictitious woman. Mollie is shocked, furious, broken. But while the chimes are ringing for Gregory's marriage he appears in a top hat, gaily tells Mollie of his ruse and whisks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...described the male and female genital apparatus in main detail, with illustrations by Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson, gynecologist and eugenist. She told of ovulation. She described insemination. She wrote: "Don't let any one drag you into nasty talk or thought about sex. It is not a nasty subject." She mentioned the two terrible sexual diseases. She concluded with: "The physical side of love is the intensely intimate part of it, and the most critical for happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Sex Side of Life | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Denials make poor reading and worse information; a sweeping denial, it is true, may close discussion on a subject, but the mere bolting of a single door piques the curiosity in regard to all the others. In the present case, the real question hinges on what is to be done with the present H. A. A. surplus not what definite sum it is not going to be allowed to accumulate to. It is too much to hope that Harvard men will continue smilingly to pay five dollars a ticket to see football games when part of this sum is going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLOUDY AND UNSETTLED | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Before the advent of this new time the Dining Halls were subject to a "rush" just before the end of the hours for serving--at each meal. A certain class of fellows consistently come in the Halls at the last possible moment. Were the evening meal served from 6.00 to 10.30 there would be a large number come in at 10.29. On every holiday, Sunday, or any day on which the time is extended for serving, there is always this joyful rush at the last minute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Order | 5/4/1929 | See Source »

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