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Word: unless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...universal among museums, should now be encouraged, under proper precautions, and every effort should be made to enlist the interest of as large a number of persons as possible. The staff, are ready and anxious to undertake the rearrangement and labelling but they felt it was beyond their power unless they could be provided with trained assistance and working facilities. The income of the Museum was not only too small to permit this, but was insufficient for effective administration even after modernization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Director of Peabody Museum Maps His Reorganization Campaign | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

Contrary to lore snakes do not attack humans wantonly. They are lazy and timid and do not strike unless hurt or threatened with hurt. Exceptions are the African mamba, the Malayan King, the bushmaster of the tropics, and cascavel (a rattler) of Central America. A coach whip will sometimes follow a man. But it is only curious, and will speed away if threatened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Snakes | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...spirit of emulation, as President Lowell points out in his last annual report, should help to accomplish this--the desire of each "house" to achieve intellectual and athletic distinction in rivalry with its fellows. But this will not suffice, in our judgment, unless as soon as possible after the "houses" have been established and the first few allotments made the faculty allows the students themselves every reasonable freedom in choosing to which groups they will adhere. Nothing so strongly persuades a human being to "brighten the corner" where he is as the fact that he picked it. --New York Herald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/25/1929 | See Source »

Subscription slips attached to the Life Blanks will not be accepted unless accompanied by $9.00 in check or cash. After March 31, the price will be raised...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIORS | 1/23/1929 | See Source »

Subscription slips attached to the Life Blanks will not be accepted unless accompanied by $9.00 in check or cash. After March 31, the price will be raised...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIORS | 1/22/1929 | See Source »

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