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Word: teases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Added in 1933 to the well-filled calendar of high-pressure promotion was Life Insurance Week. Why life insurance, of all industries, should have waited so long to institutionalize itself is a minor business mystery. Making up for the wasted years, the industry launched its fifth annual Life Insurance Week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Protection v. Investment | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

The Higher part of the evening's program was furnished by two members of the House Dramatic Society who wrote and acted in a parody of the House teas. Four singers from the Madrigal Club presented some old English songs.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 5/25/1937 | See Source »

I hasten to write on this delicate subject because I've been told there's some change in University Hall's policy regarding the entertainment of lady guests in students' rooms. The handling of the problem here--though not quite analogous--may be of some use. In general the regulations...

Author: By Chris Janus, | Title: The Oxford Letter | 11/21/1936 | See Source »

A Boston paper recently commented in its editorial columns on what the writer considered the deporable fact that the American college campus, of a weekend, is no longer a campus but a "deserted village". The editorial says ominously that "the campus has become for some students merely a place to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFTER SUCH PLEASURES | 11/13/1936 | See Source »

He was quick to tell me President Conant was receiving an honorary degree from Oxford this afternoon and wouldn't I like to join him in seeing the ceremony? Aside from the fact I got to know the Conants through their Sunday teas and this is an institution I would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Oxford Letter | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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