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Word: weeks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...giving the names of symphony orchestras which started their season of programs last week, you omitted the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra. Professor Brown of Harvard called it a "national model" for cities of this size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...Last week President Hoover stuck close to his White House desk, saw few callers, braced himself for a prolonged contest with Congress. ¶ On Thanksgiving Day the President corrected proof on his message to Congress on the State of the Union (see below), punctuating the hours with an 18-Ib. wild turkey, shot in the Blue Ridge Mountains near his summer camp and presented to him by Postmaster William M. Mooney of Washington. With the White House in mourning for Secretary of War Good, only three extra plates were set, for Allan Hoover, Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Rickard. Other doings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...House Plan is in operation. After living for a week in his new quarters in the cupola of the construction shack of Lowell House the Vagabond officially lays claim to the distinction of "first settler", and offers his less informed readers a report on the actual living conditions in one of the new houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

...cool edge to last week's breeze was a little rough on a pioneer and the Vagabond hopes soon to find some evidence in the blue prints of weather stripping so that future inhabitants can be entrenched tight against the winter's blast. With conditions as they are, however, this does not seem likely, and protection against the cold will probably be confined to the central heating plant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

...House Master--Head Tutor--Tutor--Student resident of Lowell House the Vagabond has been exceedingly busy. And he is justly proud of his record. Not only has his attendance at lectures been regular, but he has had his fourteen meals a week of Freshman Hall food--and enjoyed the comradeship of youth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

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