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Word: ballons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barnett '28 (H) 10; R. T. Sharpe '28 (H) 11; Harold Strauss '28 (H) 12; J. K. Jessup (Y) 13; J. F. Rettger (Y) 14; J. M. Bernstein (Y) 15; R. T. Sherman '28 (H) 16; T. W. Copeland (Y) 17; R. W. Huntington, Jr., (Y) 18; D. H. Ballon (Y), 19; H. T. Dolan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Judges Give Verdict to Harvard in Scholastic Contest With Yale | 6/1/1928 | See Source »

...Beckett, Mass., William Ballon, owner of the reservoir above the town, sat waiting in his automobile until the dam began to crumble. Then he sped, honking, to warn his towns-fellows. All escaped but Mrs. Justine Carroll, aged 60, who hesitated fatally as mills, stores, houses, barns swept down upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: New England Flood | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...only immediate effect that this ballon d'cssai had last week was to cause M. Poincarè to assert that France would continue her debt payments to the U. S. and Britain by extending the temporary arrangement under which she has been paying $20,000,000 a year to each country. A fuller statement was promised "early next year," the British agreement expiring in March; the U. S. in June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Debts | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...perhaps, unfortunate that Professor McAdie has here and there given prominence to certain of the new units, such as the new Blue Hill temperature scale and the Kilobar. The sentence (p.48), "in five minutes the ballon was a mile high, the pressure 840 Kilo bars, the temperature 1060, or there had been a fall of 30 Kilograds," certainly conveys very little to the average reader unless he thinks rather intensely and makes his conversions himself before he proceeds to the next sentence. Yet professor McAdie is well-known as an ardent advocate of these new units, has fought a hard...

Author: By Professor ROBERT Dec. ward, | Title: THE WEATHER MAN AS A HUMAN | 4/10/1926 | See Source »

...small offer would be unacceptable to the French and Belgians, and the Germans know this, the larger amount, representing the maximum sum Germany will be able to pay, is sure to be brought forward sooner or later. The Germans would simply use the small offer, not as a ballon d'essai, but as a means of inaugurating direct negotiations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Ruhr: May 5, 1923 | 5/5/1923 | See Source »

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