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Word: barbers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father was a barber ..." With this curt outline of his genealogy, William Hoppe, billiard "champion of champions," opens his autobiography,* proceeds to tell how he learned to play billiards when he was so small that h' had to stand upon a chair; how he won the world's championship, played before kings, statesmen, presidents; how Mark Twain, that voluble billiard-fan, told him a funny story; how he toured the world with Jacob Schaefer, "the Wizard." Hoppe defeated Jake Schaefer, but the old man trained his son, young Jake, to take revenge. Once, indeed, young Jake defeated Hoppe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Schaefer vs. Hoppe | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

...Barber, assistant to the president of the Walworth Manufacturing Company may be interviewed March 2 and 3 on the subject of statistics. Retail store management is the subject of Mr. G. K. Creighton of the E. T. Slattery Company. He may be consulted only on March 10. The last series of conferences is on March 10 and 12, when Colonet William Thompson of Thompson and Lichtner will discuss industrial management...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUSINESS MEN HOLD CONFERENCES | 3/5/1925 | See Source »

...Barber, Chairman, Miss Petronella Wiloox; T. J. Crawford, Miss Louisa Wilcox; A. P. Donovan, Miss Mildred Brennan; W. F. Sawyer, Miss Alice Mahady; T. C. Van Stone, Miss Louise Remington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNOUNCE BOX LISTS FOR JUNIOR FESTIVITY | 3/4/1925 | See Source »

...first witness called was an ex-typesetter turned Bolshevik by name of Felix Neumann, who spoke in a quiet, bored way as if murder was all in the day's work. Officially, he was charged with the murder of one Rausch, a barber who had turned traitor to the German Bolsheviki. In his testimony, he admitted lying in wait several times for General von Seeckt, present head of the Reichswehr, because the Cheka had decided that he "must not only be wounded but killed, since otherwise we shall simply be making a mess of things." He and other comrades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crime | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

HARVARD 1928 TILTON Baldwin l.f. r.f. Novokowski Slocum r.f. l.f. Simpson Green or MacCurdy c. c. Holmander Meisenbach l.g. r.g. Woods (captain) Barber r.g. l.g. Rosenfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TILTON CLASH INITIAL GAME FOR 1928 QUINTET | 1/10/1925 | See Source »

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