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Word: worked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Work Done. Last week the U. S. Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...bilingual twist, the new governor's speech might not have been considered extraordinary. The Colonel recalled how his late, great father, only U. S. president to visit Porto Rico, had called the island "the Switzerland of America." He referred to his duties as ''our work," asked for "team-play, shoulder to shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Switzerland of America | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Those who have made the various varsity teams become available for work as graduate coaches at the Point or as coaches for corps area, department or regimental teams as the case may be, wherever they happen to be stationed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Army Graduate Reminisces on Point Traditions and Experiences | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

...Plains and each year the Crimson was triumphant. In 1898, with C. D. Daly '01 piloting the Harvard machine, the Cadets were turned back 28 to 0 in a game which they had expected to win. Three years later Daly was directing the Army forces, but even his stellar work did not suffice to keep the Crimson from pushing over a last minute touchdown to win its sixth consecutive victory by 6 to 0 count. It was during this series of games that the West Point combination received its worst set-back, that in 1899 when Harvard piled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gridiron Ghosts | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

Here, the instructors hand out a long lesson and the Plebe must teach himself, for when he gets to class he is expected more to recite and less to be instructed. More than three-fourths of classroom work is recitation. This requires a new method of study. That is what makes Plebe year so hard, not the number of subjects but the acquiring of the new way of learning. The main cause of men failing in a course is because they have not learned how to study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life and Trials of Plebe Set Forth In Story by Cadet Editor of Pointer | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

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