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Word: tuned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty cannot tune in on Continental stations on his radio at Buckingham Palace, because British broadcasting stations interfere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Empire Fair | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...more effective than a chorus of Rotarians in derbies, rolling forth grandiose melodies reeking with noble sentiments; or the orchestral blare as Prohibition, garbed in black, rushes full tilt at the lurid figure of the Demon Rum; or the carrying off of the latter's corpse to the tune of "Blue Heaven". But if such treatment is a possibility from the more violent native sons, M. Pillionel, with a calmer, foreign point of view, will doubtless leave it for them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ST. ANDREW VOLSTEAD | 2/25/1928 | See Source »

...close, hard fought clash on the Hemenway court last night, the University basketball five won its sixth victory of the season, when it toppled a quintet from M. I. T. to the tune of 32 to 27. A complete change in the offensive line, by the substitution of two sub-guards for the two regular forwards, added to the power of the Crimson forces, Harvard taking the lead shortly after the initial whistle and holding it throughout the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON QUINTET TOPS M.I.T. OPPONENTS, 32-27 | 2/23/1928 | See Source »

Another competition, for words for the Baccalaureate hymn is under way and will also close on March 17, when all compositions must be handed in. The words of the hymn should be set to some familiar tune such as "Jerusalem the Golden", "Onward Christian Soldiers," or "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLANS FOR CLASS DAY ARE BEGUN | 2/21/1928 | See Source »

...skirmished brilliantly in law (which he quitted because "to be a great lawyer I must give up my chance of being a great man"); in finance (but to the tune of debts that shadowed him most of his life); in newspaper publishing (which his speculations soon made impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dizzy | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

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