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Word: wanderings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wrong. I am on a newspaper myself and notice that the reporters have a hard time with English, but a terrible time when they wander into a foreign tongue, alive or dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 19, 1927 | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...grubbing process is not made easier by the professor in charge. An excellent scholar himself, he can wander on and on in total oblivion, which is shared by most of the people in the room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Issues Confidential Guide to Coming Half-Courses | 12/6/1927 | See Source »

...number of reasons. They may be brought out by a hangover of the preparatory school notion of being a Big Man around College. They may find that curricular work does not demand enough of their time to keep them busy. They may be bored. They may just wander in because they have found the habit of wandering. But once he has started, one of two things happens to the CRIMSON candidate. He may drop in after two or three days, tell the Managing Editor that his studies are getting a bit harder, and he won't have time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEETING TONIGHT SOUNDS CALL FOR ALL CANDIDATES | 11/29/1927 | See Source »

...Vagabond has come down to the present generation and with the more dispatch for, indeed, we live in the present and future; in the past we are dead, and the Vagabond has as yet no desire to wander into Appleton Chapel and become a tradition. It is to the present and future then that he will turn today. From his abode under the shadow, so to speak, of the founder's statue he will set forth not toward the massive Norman portal of Sever, or the Georgian chastity of Harvard but in a very different direction. For it is quite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...same. As last year, the Student Vagabond will concentrate the major portion of his attention upon the flowers which might else blush unseen in the "Announcement of Courses of Instruction" and waste their perfume upon a few. But being younger, it is more than likely that he will wander farther afield seeking violets rather than daisies. Nor will he keep too well in mind the strict definition of a student. More often than occasionally he will merely draw a road map to the mine where the gold may be gathered, nor stop to explain the intricacies of its composition. Only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT VAGABOND TO START THIRD SEASON'S WANDERINGS SHORTLY | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

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