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Word: weird (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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Certainly the term "collective bargaining" should be more clearly defined. To most of us it has become a vague phrase describing "bargaining" of weird sorts and "collecting" in various ways...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What is Collective Bargaining? | 11/3/1919 | See Source »

...directly below him, while the one below can easily watch the one above. Once behind the other fellow, you try to follow him in all his turns. When you try to make quick turns and don't get them just right the machine assumes the most weird positions. You may see your opponent apparently stationary and exactly upside down. The earth may be over your head or off to one side; it is most uncomfortable sometimes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DESCRIBES AERIAL SHOOTING | 4/1/1918 | See Source »

...will speak at Tremont Temple, Boston, tonight. The subject of his lecture will be "The Cult of Nationalism." Tagore has been acclaimed by many as the greatest living poet. His writings reflect the romantic spirit of the East, and most of his poems are written to a weird moaning Rengali music, which he himself composes. He has translated many of his own works, among them his short stories in the writing of which many critics claint his greatest genius lies. Tickets ranging in price from 50 cents to $1.52 may be purchased at the box office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indian Poet at Tremont Temple | 12/5/1916 | See Source »

...travelling expenses out and back are not paid. This college does not consist entirely of Chinese, for there is a foreign community there of nearly four hundred. Those who have gone out there report the life varied and interesting, and not at all in accord with the weird ideas that are sometimes prevalent in regard to conditions in the East. Immediate application must be sent in as the appointment will be made soon. Any one who is interested may secure further information from J. C. Manry '13, in Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Discussion to be on Prayer | 3/10/1915 | See Source »

Ostracized in their weird structure on the Mount Auburn-Bow street dividing line, the Lampoon phalanx is anxiously practising how to take defeat graciously in the annual contest next Wednesday. The champion CRIMSON hockey team meanwhile awaits with grim glee its yearly job as executioner, all of the winning players being judged in the pink of condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampy Still Practising for Defeat | 2/11/1915 | See Source »

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