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Word: sundays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest annoyance is, however, the closing of the Fogg Reading Room on Sunday. The importance of the Museum among Harvard's thousand-and-one sights would hardly suffer if the Reading Room were kept open Sunday afternoon and evening; and disturbance to readers would be avoided by shutting off that room as is done during weekday evenings. Certainly the condition of the student swamped by the exactitudes and executions of outside reading deserves the amelioration afforded by these two measures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLOSED TODAY | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

What's the song they sing on Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Eggs! Eggs! Eggs! | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...tights which revealed not only their ankles but their hips. In those days people believed with Queen Victoria in the theory that women had no understanding whatever. Next day James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald commended the city to the fire and brimstone of Sodom and Gomorrah. Sunday after Sunday pulpits boomed denunciation. Soon at Niblo's Garden there was only standing room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: In Hoboken | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

This year, seeking to perfect its service and to establish more satisfactory classifications, Editor & Publisher obtained 1928 lineage statistics for 387 dailies and Sunday papers in 81 cities from Media Records, Inc., an independent audit bureau, instead of accepting statements of individual publishers and agents as in the past. In addition to the Media records, Editor & Publisher compiled figures for 1,019 newspapers, in 684 cities, compiled according to the old practice. The whole story was edited-&-published last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lineage | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...undoubtedly on it at the present time because of the outpouring of so much filthy literature. Gentlemen and ladies,† I appeal to our better selves! Let us cooperate to stop the flood of indecency which is being launched upon the world." Upon Alfred Emanuel Smith was conferred last Sunday the University of Notre Dame's Laetare medal, highest U. S. distinction available for lay Catholics. Said the Rev. Charles L. O'Donnell, of Notre Dame: "The long and honorable public career of Ex-Governor Smith, as well as the fine example of his private family life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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