Word: timbuctoo
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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Instead of electing a greatest woman of all time, however, the people usually seek the most beautiful woman in America. Recently the papers were filled with pictures of rural belles from Utah, Timbuctoo, and Chicago; then all these lovely damsels convened at Atlantic City, where that epicure of feminine beauty, Mr. Florenz Ziegfeld selected from them Miss America,--now on her way to Hollywood...
...critics are right. Undergraduate life is more complicated than it used to be and there are more opportunities for wasting time. Yet the same can be said for New York or Timbuctoo. The Harvard pump is not the only one that has disappeared. The critics are wrong only in lamenting the change...