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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foilsmen will cross swords with Brunswick High School at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the Hemenway Gymnasium. The Freshmen have lost one match out of three so far and are expected to add another victory to their record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Sextet Conquers St. Paul's--1932 Basketball, Wrestling, Squash and Fencing Aggregations See Action | 2/23/1929 | See Source »

...that is, in order to insure publication at a given date he must have his material ready from six to eight weeks ahead. Thus on a cool June day the artist must be mentally sweating under a torrid August sun, while in October his characters are busily shoveling snow. Add to this the fact that the strip must be equally acceptable from Maine to Texas and it is obvious that it takes considerably more than faultless execution to make a successful cartoonist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CANDIDATE | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

...bats constitute no major portion of the Spalding company's present production. In 1892, A. G. Spalding & Bros, acquired Wright & Ditson and A. J. Reach, sporting goods companies, and put itself in an almost monopolistic position to profit from that trend in U. S. life which was to add the football stadium to collegiate architecture and golf .to the businessman's routine. Had the famed football player who wished to die for dear old Rutgers realized his ambition, a Spalding ball would have been found under his corpse. The first Davis Cup tennis matches (1900) were played with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Spalding | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

THIS latest addition to the present flood of travel books will do little to add to the popularity of the class. The author, whom the reader may remember as displaying narrative power to a high degree in "Beasts, Men and Gods" wanders rather confusedly through the French colonies in western tropical Africa and the result is less a description of the country he traversed than an airing of the author's theories on various subjects...

Author: By R. L. W. jr., | Title: BOOKENDS | 1/31/1929 | See Source »

...after the carnival number is completed. Foremost among these is S. C. Badger '23, who held the National Exhibition Skating Championship for three years while he was in college, and who is considered the best free skater in the country. Frederick Goodridge '29, National Junior champion in 1927, will add an act of fancy skating to the program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clark, Harvard Sportsman, to be Duke of the Evening at Russian Skating Bee--Pony on Runners Gives Horseplay | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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