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Word: things (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing of shreds and patches" was Secretary of Labor James John Davis's description of the fabric of the U. S. immigration law. In his annual Department report he recommended that Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Labor Report | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...match that went 40 holes, then was put out himself by Watrous. In the finals Farrell kept on Diegel's heels until the ninth hole in the afternoon when he knocked the wrong ball in the hole trying to putt past a stymie. He did the same thing on the next hole and then Diegel won three in a row to get his name on the radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dials for Diegel | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...under construction will be fully equipped with a ring and all modern conveniences for boxing enthusiasts who must now be accommodated in the cramped quarters of Hemenway. He further stated that he was heartily in favor of putting the sport on a firm basis, and that the only thing necessary to carry this out was a vote of the Student Council. The interest in boxing which these facts indicate would justify some definite action on the part of the Council. With minor sports becoming more and, more popular, the addition of boxing to their number would certainly be a constructive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SPORTING PROPOSITION | 12/14/1929 | See Source »

...seems that the customary thing for the undergraduate logician to do who has solved Kant, chuckled at Leibnitz and written an original thesis proving that Nietzsche was an obscurantist with disguised nympholeptic longings is to take up this course by way of easement. The reviewer sat among scholars from the start. The one on the left took notes in French and German. The two on the right giggled over puns in the original Greek. All of them smiled when hour exams were announced. It was a disturbing atmosphere, although here and there were scattered other strays like the reviewer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

There is nothing startling about the Dramatic Club's first production of the season, except its contrast to the sort of thing that was being presented a year ago at this time. From unruly Mexico, the Club has shifted to the most polite drawing-room atmosphere of proper England. Of course, A. A. Milne is much too successful in juvenile writing to let slip an opportunity like the Barrie-Kipling dream scene in which the appearance of a Nite, a Squier, and a Buteus Maiden would do any child's heart good. The adult portions of the play are composed...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: "SUCCESS" ACCEPTABLY PRESENTED | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

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