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Word: tiling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Added Loafer: "Entering, awed, . . . the bum was greeted by the strains, from a dormitory window, of Red Hot Mama. Doorsteps are found artificially worn down as if with the tread of the countless, and the tile of the roof has been especially prepared to gather dust and moss as rapidly as possible, to simulate the venerable. To this university, then, goes the prestige of having artfully intimated Oxford and Cambridge without copying directly. . . . Good old tears, good old spires, good old doorsteps (hastened up a bit), good old Oxford, good old quaint antique, old alma mater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critique | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

...thquirrel thit-th and thqueek-th up in tile treeth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/26/1925 | See Source »

...Pierian Sodality Orchestra is the oldest institution of its kind in America, and is the institution from which the University Glee Club sprang. In its earliest years the orchestra had many difficulties to overcome, at one time there was only one member of tile Sodality left at the opening of the University in the fall, but this solitary member succeeded in forming a new Sodality, and since then it has become more and more prominent in the field of orchestral work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIERIAN TO OPEN SEASON AT COPLEY DECEMBER 3 | 11/14/1924 | See Source »

...have what not only the United States, but every country needs for the cultivation of industry; valuable woods of various kinds, including, of course, the rubber tree; sugar plantations, coconut groves, orange, banana and pineapple farms. The waters teem with fish. Cattle are successfully raised. The land is fer tile. The climate benign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: True Democracy | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

...faced today by the student of economic and business trends, when he attempts to foresee conditions as they will be in 1924. Practically all the facts pointed a month ago to continued deflation. Suddenly, a new psychology of confidence invaded the stock market, and from there extended to mercan tile and industrial lines. Prominent leaders told the public so often and so emphatically that prosperity was ahead that the public has began to believe it. Is this mass-delusion, not unassisted by judicious publicity and generous purchases in the stock market? Or is it the glimmering of a clear dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Current Situation: Dec. 3, 1923 | 12/3/1923 | See Source »

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