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Word: two (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a two-fold romance--that of the sea and that of Dan Bover and Ann Duane, the slim and lovely toast of New York. Bover's unquenchable love of the sea, never satisfied except when he strides the quarterdeck of his ship, and his tortuous pursuit of an elusive but understanding Ann, provide the twin plots underlying the whole structure of the novel...

Author: By V. O. Jones ., | Title: Invitation to Danger | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

This year Professor Hurlbut was giving two courses, English 31 and English 7, the former a course in advanced English composition, and the latter on early eighteenth century English authors. He had been granted sabbatical leave for the second half of the current year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR HURLBUT PASSES AWAY AFTER VERY BRIEF ILLNESS | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

...common figures published by the bureau may be used by business men in two ways: (1) to judge the quality of the operating performances of individual firms, and (2) to set standards to be used in planning future operations. Directions for using these common figures are given in the bulletin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPERATING POLICIES OF BUILDERS ARE STUDIED IN RESEARCH PROGRAM | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

Reading Mr. Morris one gets the feeling of sitting at the feet of a clear minded old campaigner who has one or two good stories to tell. The pages turn quickly, the style is pleasantly homely, the interest glows from one point to another. But its worth as a valuation of Whitman's art, in this reviewer's opinion, small...

Author: By R. N. C. jr., | Title: Reminiscences of Walt Whitman | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

There must be pleasure, too, for those agents provacateurs in donning figurative false beards and going out on the vice-hunt, with their Index Expurgatorius in one hand and sufficient funds in the other to provide them with the latest and freshest in potentially risque literature. The two-kinds-of-falsehood idea should furnish an analogy for a two-purposes-in-reading theory, by which what must be kept with holy zeal from the unconcenrated eyes of ordinary mortals can be read with propriety, and of course without danger to their purity of soul, by these unofficial collagues of Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MICROMETER OF MORALITY | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

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