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Word: things (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Perhaps the first thing to catch the eye upon entering the house is the newly completed portrait of Bobby Jones, by Wayman Adams, N. A. This is the property of the Atlanta Athletic club, and will be hung in its new uptown home after the present exhibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beauty & Truth | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...depraved poet once pointed out that all men kill the thing they love, some with a sword, some with a word. Last week Joseph Carson, Jr., who had loved knowledge but found more of it in the head of his friend than in his own, tried to kill knowledge with his fists, with a shoe, with a dressing gown and a milk bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Jag | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...must be the case. Unless a man has gone through this mill or is a genius, he cannot know his subject. And there are not many geniuses in this country. Writers like these attackers of the Ph.D. want personality stressed. The CRIMSON in a recent editorial wanted the same thing. Yet it never suggested that scholarship should be foresworn for personality. The great question which faces the American university is how it can develop both in its graduate students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PH.D. DEGREE | 10/29/1926 | See Source »

...that the status quo is not exactly what it should be, it is a trifle more difficult to improve the status quo, Yet there is no reason to believe that some one person or group of persons who have been thinking for some time on just this sort of thing, cannot outline a plan, which, it not in itself the be all and end all, can by its suggestiveness initiate thinking which will produce such a plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESIDENT'S LETTER | 10/26/1926 | See Source »

...felt, Saturday. If this can keep that spirit, no one else will beat them, this year. That's why Gene Tinney defeated Dempsey: he paid no attention to other people, but just behind in himself. I think this confidence, or determination, or whatever it is is the most essential thing for an athlete to have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAYS CRIMSON WILL DEFEAT PRINCETON | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

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