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Another rare book in the cases is the fifth edition of "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" by Byron. This edition is extremely uncommon because he caused it to be suppressed for personal reasons, shortly after it was put upon the presses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TREASURE ROOM SHOWS VALUABLE BIBLIOPHILIA | 3/25/1927 | See Source »

...condition known during the war as shell-shock is by no means as uncommon among young college students as might be thought. In this connection the doctor points out, Harvard is fortunate in having the services of Dr. H. A. Shaw '89, whose long service as surgeon in the United States Army and later at the Psychopathic Hospital in Boston has especially fitted him for such work with young...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORCESTER NIPS ILL HEALTH EARLY | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

According to James Weldon Johnson of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, enforced servitude of Negroes is not uncommon. Most common, said he, is the trick of keeping ignorant Negroes in perpetual debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Black Bodies | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...volume of uncommon beauty and significance, the "List of Etonians who fought in the Great War MCMXIV-MCMXIX," has recently been sent to the Widener Library. The cut shown above is a reproduction of the title page...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Title Page of Recent Library Acquisition | 1/5/1927 | See Source »

...nullity from coercion, outside of China and Africa, are more frequent among the wealthy than the poor, that is because selling into marriage is more common among the wealthy than the poor. Speaking without knowledge is bad for the reputation. Please pardon another word. A very simple and not uncommon case for some reason or other was exaggerated beyond its importance. A woman appeared before an ecclesiastical court and asked it whether or not in its opinion her marriage, in the light of sworn testimony, was valid. The court replied after hearing the evidence, that in its opinion the marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

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