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Word: true (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true that very little can be known definitely about what Commander Byrd may expect to find at the South Pole", said Professor D. W. Whittlesey in answer to questions put to him by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BYRD EXPEDITION WILL UNCOVER VALUABLE DATA | 12/4/1929 | See Source »

...advanced and stored. It is a corporation which acquires and husbands a great endowment. All these things Harvard has been and more or less still is in such fashion that not only her sons but the general citizenry may think of her as a type. And especially is this true of the changes which have been worked in the ancient institution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Core of This University is the Yard Asserts California Professor Who is Harvard Graduate | 12/3/1929 | See Source »

Statistics are usually more decorative than useful. Although it is true that Sweden's annual match output would reach to the moon if laid end-to-end, no lunatic ever thought of asking Swedish Match Tycoon Ivar Kreuger to make his statistic come true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Profane Proposal | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...line of business must be sure other lines are running at full schedule. In this way did the conference give each leader assurance that he would be left holding no bag. Rumors of curtailment were denied. Merchant Jesse Isidor Straus of R. H. Macy & Co. said it was not true he had laid off 1,200 employes but that he had discharged 28, taken on 200. Other executives spoke along the same lines. Alexander Legge. Chairman of the Federal Farm Board, drawled, "It looks as if industry would have to begin scraping around to get employes instead of laying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Prosperity Pledgers | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

President Lowell, it is true, in his discussion of the House Plan, mentions the fact that it is intended to have undergraduates spend their last three years at Harvard in the new House Units. Is this to mean that the tradition of rooming in the Yard during one's Senior year is to be abandoned? If such is the case, it is a great pity. The Yard, with its ivy covered buildings, is the heart and soul of the University, and its atmosphere and traditions cannot be adequately replaced by any number of House Units, no matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What's to Become . . .? | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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