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Word: swaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every good college has its Grand Old Man, its patriarch. So necessary is he as an object of veneration, as an oracle, as a figure about whom to swap reunion anecdotes, that if a college did not have a patriarch it would soon invent one. Last week, having reached the halfway mark on a world cruise, Yale's Grand Old Man -President Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley-died in Kobe, Japan. With Chauncey Mitchell Depew two years in his grave, with William Howard Taft dead two days later, the end of President Emeritus Hadley left Yale for the present without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Death of a Patriarch | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...Swap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jan. 27, 1930 | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...Ardsley, N. Y., Mrs. Oliver J. Vetiano said she awoke to find, not her husband, but his best friend, John Condon, standing beside her bed. He was dressed in pajamas and said: "It's all right. Don't make a fuss. Your husband and I made a swap. We understand each other." Mrs. Vetiano made a fuss, but not Mrs. Condon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jan. 27, 1930 | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

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