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Word: unpleasanter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The advantages of a system under which frank, friendly, and intimate conference between student boards and university officials is substituted for arbitrary and autocratic control, so far outweigh the disadvantages due to the inevitable and sometimes serious mistakes that editors will make, that I am convinced we ought to take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CENSORSHIP OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS IS POOR PSYCHOLOGY SAYS DOYLE | 6/1/1928 | See Source »

The article, I thought, without any moralising comment, but by merely recounting the situation, depicted a characteristic phase of our present social condition. Perhaps that condition is unpleasant to Messrs. Fries and Watson. It is to me. Nevertheless such incidents are news, and are not of the "Graphic" type when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 28, 1928 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

"The authorities appear to be alarmed but remain apathetic. It is time something is done about it. Accordingly, we take this opportunity of asking the university authorities to remove from Oxford those who are responsible for the phenomenon, which would be faintly comic were it not apt to produce such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Buchmanites | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

When golfers from other countries go to play golf in England they know that though the English players may be bad the English weather will be bad too. It Was particularly unpleasant at Hunstanton, England, where the British women's tournament was played last week. Followed by several thousand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Hunstanton | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Wrist Watch. Winding the wrist watch is one of those unpleasant little bedtime duties frequently forgotten. From the Isle of Man comes the device of John Harwood making it no longer necessary. The watch is constructed on the principle of the pedometer, being wound by the movements of the forearm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Devices | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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