Search Details

Word: tens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Smoking is forbidden under any circumstances and special permission must be obtained for automobile rides that will go more than ten miles from Boston. A fashion note in the rule book decrees that hats will be worn in Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Food, Feeding, Dancing, Dress, Goings Out and Comings-In of Radcliffe Regulated by Rule--Full Moon Not Restricted | 10/5/1927 | See Source »

Following on the success of last year's ten dances which furnished entertainment after the football games, a new series of dances for this fall has been announced by Davidson Sommers '26, Graduate Secretary of the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST OF SERIES OF UNION TEA DANCES IS ON SATURDAY | 10/4/1927 | See Source »

...literary critic of the New York World, replied: "So far as controlling writing-that is impossible ... no one can get a stranglehold on brains. The products of writing men crop up in the most unexpected places, and every now and then a wholly unknown and obscure firm makes a ten-strike with a newcomer. . . . The making of books is free and unconfined, and unless someone gobbles up all the paper in the world, so it must continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Book Business | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...most inexact of sciences. Most laymen have no notion of its reaches, beyond a superficial jargon, culled from newssheets, of meaninglessly enormous chunks of time and space. For such laymen as prefer facts to fantasies, Author Benson ably, if condescendingly, puts forward geological facts (e.g.-the air ten miles above the equator is colder than that ten miles above the arctic circle; rainbows are round, so that no fossil-picks are required to apprehend them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Geology | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

After a complete failure last spring to place even a single entry in the great Hollywood sweepstakes, Harvard has made a belated effort to hide her shame by completing a moving picture enterprise of her own. There may not be a single one of the ten thousand men of Harvard who knows how to use mascara or wear polo shirts open at the throat but, impossible as it may seem, there are demands for other kinds of actors. The films taken by the Harvard Athletic Association staff photographer, of which three copies are to be made in order to insure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLUSHING UNSEEN | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

Previous | 254 | 255 | 256 | 257 | 258 | 259 | 260 | 261 | 262 | 263 | 264 | 265 | 266 | 267 | 268 | 269 | 270 | 271 | 272 | 273 | 274 | Next