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Word: young (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Russian kisses bearing 40,000 germs apiece (TIME, Oct. 21) recall Kieth Preston's pun. Young lad), on being approached with osculation in mind, replies, "Don't, bacilli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...legs of Vassar and Wellesley ladies longer or shorter than those of Smith College students? Is physical exercise more prevalent at Vassar and Wellesley than Smith, and if so how many millimeters larger are the calves of these young ladies than their rivals at Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...rumored that over 100 men at Harvard, and 200 at Columbia, take anthropology courses and all are especially trained in making anthropometric tables. There are something over 500 institutions in this country devoted exclusively to the education of young ladies. Thus does science progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...bemoaned the passing of the oldline lobbyist who "really knew the tariff." He suggested the formation of a special school in which younger men could be taught the art of tariff lobbying. Praise from the master-lobbyist: "If there were a hundred brilliant young men like Mr. Eyanson [see below] in Washington, the country would be better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Great Lobby Hunt, Cont. | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Twelve tired-eyed jurors, taut and nervous, filed solemnly into the District of Columbia Supreme Court room one morning last week after a day and a night's deliberation. A young bank teller, as foreman, cleared his throat huskily, read from a blue paper in his shaky hand: "Guilty, with a recommendation to the mercy of the court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: First Felon | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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