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Word: well (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Considering the entire Freshman class last year, including dropped, readmitted, and provisional Freshmen as well as the new Freshmen, 18.9 per cent made the Dean's list and 19.3 per cent were unsatisfactory as compared with 15.2 per cent on the Dean's list and 22.9 per cent unsatisfactory for 1927-28. The readmitted Freshmen, as in previous years, lowered the average of the entire class, as 46.3 per cent either had their connection severed or encountered some other unsatisfactory outcome. This is the poorest showing for the readmitted Freshmen since 1921-22. This result seems to justify the Administrative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1932 MAKES BRILLIANT SCHOLASTIC SHOWING | 9/24/1929 | See Source »

Journalists speculating on the case wondered: 1) could Mrs. Burns prove that the American, when it printed Burns's story, "well knew" of his malice towards her? 2) If she could prove that, and prove her whole story, was it worth $100,000 to the American to have printed without verifying its "human interest" story about "poor War Veteran Burns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Villainess v. Villain | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Baltimore's Aviation. Baltimore at her 100th anniversary (1829) fell in step with the very first U. S. railroads. At her 200th anniversary celebration last week (see p. 16) she was not only in step with the newest transportation, aviation, but well up at the head of the march. Items: The Aviation Corp. last week bought a $500,000 factory site to build Dornier all-metal transports; Glenn L. Martin Co. was to move into its new plant this week; Curtiss-Caproni Corp.'s new factory was almost completed; Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corp. had just completed its first commercial biplane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: The Industry | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...court room, on the top floor of the west wing. Here the dedication will be held. This court, modeled after the style of the old English Courts at Westminister, with seats for counsel inside the bar on the sides and at right angles to the judges bench as well as before the bench, is probably one of the finest court rooms in the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTABLES SPEAK AT LANGDELL HALL WING DEDICATION | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Incredibly, he began to hear voices--two voices. (He insists that he "heard" them; no "Imagination" no, sir!) As from two invisible-well, "microphones," as one would say now. At either end of the cowl in front of him. And he himself some Third Person. A petrified audience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Tomorrow You Go Solo!" Tomorrow I Fly Alone | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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