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Word: tensely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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One Juan Diego, shirtless Mexican Indian, was trudging through Guadalupe, few miles from Mexico City. Suddenly he received the impression that a fair young virgin, the Mother of God, stood before him. Falling on his face he prayed. Rising up he succeeded in convincing others of the verity of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Prostrations | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

The Foot Guards, comprising the Grenadier Guards, the Coldstream Guards and the Scots, Welsh and Irish Guards are perhaps the most glamorously traditional of any extant fighting unit. Recently Londoners turned out by the tens of thousands as the Regiments of Guards assembled in their bright uniforms and beneath their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Six-Footers | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

The faculties of the science departments of the University will be the hosts at the second of the University Tens to be held in the Living Room of the Union this afternoon from 4.30 to 6 o'clock. While all members of the University are welcome, the occasion is intended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TECHNICAL TEACHERS TO TAKE TEA TOGETHER | 12/3/1926 | See Source »

The purpose of these informal Tens is to give members of the student body an opportunity to become personally acquainted with the members of the Faculties and their wives. In the past this facility was not afforded to undergraduates, but with the growth of the University the establishment of some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACULTY-STUDENT TEAS AT UNION OPEN FRIDAY | 11/23/1926 | See Source »

The Observer comes first. The power and habit of seeing in minute detail were upon him from childhood. Once, with a rare beetle in each hand and a third in sight, he transferred one wriggling creature to his teeth, with distressing results. He studied facial expressions of people in trains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Saint Darwin | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

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