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Word: use (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week Henri Decharbogne, famed Paris newspaperman, member of the Legion of Honor, was bumped on the head by a closing door, killed. A great cry of protest against the danger of subway doors went up. "Metro" officials, calm, ignored it; said the doors were modeled on those in use in the U. S. for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Subway Bump | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...unexpected. I really didn't intend to write for the CRIMSON this year. After my unprecedented success--I say this with modesty--last season; I was approached by many syndicates with attractive propositions. And I was surely tempted to dip my pen in an inkpot of gold--to use a rather neat figure of speech--and join the tabloid ranks as an expert writer. But the tabloid writers type with only one finger, while two Forecast digits rattle the keys, yea even three or four in moments of excitement, so I realized I should feel out of place among them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RICH BRIBE LURES JOE FORECAST AGAIN INTO GLARE OF LIMELIGHT | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

...chord in their vocal organs and they will root with might and main for "dear old Purdue." We had never thought of it before but that little phrase "dear old Purdue" is almost as catching as one sometimes connected with Harvard, and we are glad newspaper saw fit to use...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

...steam-heatel. baseball cage on Soldiers Field is completed and ready for use. In addition to the facilities for baseball practice, the building contains two tracks, one cinder and one wood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW BASEBALL CAGE OFFERS READY TRACK FACILITIES | 9/30/1927 | See Source »

...Fine Arts the reading periods will not be used in any of the courses listed both in the Architectural School and the College nor in Fine Arts 1c and 1d. Professor G. H. Edgell '09 will use them, however, in Fine Arts 5c and Professor C. R. Post '04 in all of his Fine Arts courses. While Social Ethics has taken no action as a department Professor R. C. Cabot '89 will put the new plan into effect in all of his courses and will require reports on the reading done during the special periods. Professor James Ford '04 will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Most Non-Scientific Divisions to Adopt Reading Period Plan | 9/28/1927 | See Source »

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