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Word: airings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...esteemed contemporary. The Evening World, calls attention to a state of football affairs that is indeed curious. "Harvard won again this year," it says, "and everywhere this is regarded as air upset, as the dope had favored Yale Why? One is at a loss to think. The dope always favors Yale, so much so that the sports writers would appear to have a Yale complex. Yet the hard facts are that since 1906, when the forward pass was introduced and the modern game may be said to have started, Harvard has won eleven games and Yale only eight. Three years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Situation Down at Yale | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

...thuds of the officers' night sticks, still echo in his ears and drift away to mingle with the sounds of strained intercollegiate relations that once burst forth ringing in his ears far louder than the traditional cry of Reinhart which occasionally floats up from the Yard on the night air...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

...Sandy Lake, Manitoba, aged Paul Boychuk, miller, proudly inspected a giant grist-grinder which he had invented many years ago. It included a strange lumber framework, a steam engine, a mighty boulder whirling rapidly in air. As he watched, the revolving stone split into countless fragments. A 150-lb. piece struck Miller Boychuk, killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Grocer | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Bang! Bang! Bang! Three shots rang out on the midnight air...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dimeworthy Writers | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Lowell Smith's Cross. For demonstrating six years ago the feasibility of air refueling, Capt. Lowell H. Smith last week received his Distinguished Service Flying Cross. His flight companion, Lieut. John P. Richter, already had his Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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