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Word: olds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parts of the earth; the students talked and were talked to instead of being talked at and they came to feel something of the driving force behind the life of service as exemplified in the life of Jesus. One Harvard man went so far as to say, "The old phrases are all right; I never understood them before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPEAKERS AT DES MOINES CONVENTION ASK AID OF STUDENTS FOR MISSIONARY WORK IN DISTANT LANDS | 1/12/1920 | See Source »

...Socialism is little heard of in the Orient, and it is for this reason alone that we now have cause to fear Russia. Japan harbors no hatred for the Russian people, but we cannot help instinctively fearing Bolshevism, lest it sweep away the age-old morality on which Japan has been built. I do not conceive of Bolshevism as being entirely bad--the fault is that the ignorant mind takes too literally anything new and striking. When affairs in Russia have settled down we shall be able to judge as to the faults and merits of the system that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "JAPAN CASTS ASIDE ORIENTAL CHARACTER FOR OCCIDENTAL STANDARDS"--YONE NOGUCHI | 1/6/1920 | See Source »

...acquaint him with the true state of affairs. The suspicions of husband number one that everything is not quite right are aroused when he learns that his wife, from whom he has been parted for four years, is the mother of a fine baby but a few months old. Explanations must be made, and it then develops that husband number one is perfectly contented to permit his wife to remain the wife of husband number two. But husband number two has been married to her long enough, also, which helps to complicate matters still further. "Too Many Husbands" will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "TOO MANY HUSBANDS" | 1/6/1920 | See Source »

...crisis for ten to twenty years. There is little reason for seriously considering this theory. For according to it a crisis was due several years ago. Conditions are constantly changing especially during the last few years and it is absurd to believe in a theory as old and as much ridiculed as the periodic theory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1920 TO BE A YEAR OF GREAT PROSPERITY, STATES CARVEN | 1/5/1920 | See Source »

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