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Word: constant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MARSHAL Bernard Barnes Wallace Russell Harper Gardner Lothrop Lewis James Elmer Barrett Guy Constant Holbrook, Jr. Thomas Frothingham Mason Lawrence Witherspoon Dickey William Potter Lage Josiah Warren Potter FOR TREASURER John Cross II Arthur Lithgow Devens James Roosevelt FOR ORATOR Gerald Wallace Harrington Robert Hayden Jones Edward Mortimer Morris Warburg FOR CHORISTER Bernard David Hanighen William Frost Mann Charles Matthew Underhill James Lindsay Ware FOR IVY ORATOR Edward Trumbull Batchelder Albert Goodwill Churchill FOR POET Douglas Payne Adams Robert Meader Easton Theodore Hall, Jr. Frederick William McNear, Jr. Harrison McGowan Parker FOR ODIST Robert Swain Morison Otto Eugene Schoen-Rene

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWENTY-EIGHT NAMES TO BE VOTED ON TODAY ON SENIOR BALLOT | 12/4/1929 | See Source »

...Chemistry decreased 19. This year however although the total of the three remained essentially the same Bio Chemical Sciences made an even more definite increase, 40 men; Biology dropped but three; and Chemistry decreased again having 105 men. The percentages of the total of all three groups remained practically constant during the three year stretch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Economics Still Leads English as Popular Concentration Field | 12/3/1929 | See Source »

...exuitant power of American money in buying his palace and its traditions. Into this not over-inspired fabric are worked comedy dialogue that is not funny and serious scenes that reek with sentimentality. Not that this last is inappropriate or even undesirable in a musical comedy, but the constant harping upon the theme of European tradition versus American vulgarity arouses one's latent chauvinism. The humorous possibilities of Solly Ward's malapropian speeches are done to death on his first appearance...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

...Still a third who was to have received an L.L.D. was Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur. Day before the ceremony, he telegraphed that he was unavoidably detained in Washington. His reason: Constant vigil at the bedside of Secretary of War Good, who died a few hours before it was time for Secretary Wilbur to entrain for Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: On the Midway | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Boston Curb," dealing in his own stocks, most famed of which were Idaho Copper and Columbia Emerald. Through his "financial" paper, The Iconoclast, he kept in touch with gullible yokels, advising them of activities within the companies and upon the "Curb." Faith-provoking methods of the Iconoclast were constant attacks upon margin trading, advice to buy sound New York Stock Exchange securities, instructions that widows and near-paupers keep their funds in savings banks. When at carefully regulated intervals Rice stocks went soaring on the "Boston Curb," stockholders received personal telegrams from Promoter Rice, exhorting them not to sell. Specific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Schemes | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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