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Word: basketfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basket ball court will probably be left intact for use for Law School league games, and any Seniors who wish to play there. This will mean that the University has three good courts available at all times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEMENWAY TO BE RECONDITIONED | 10/11/1928 | See Source »

...until a Cambridge hook and ladder unit clamored onto the scene that the flames were localized in a spare scrap basket. No statement has since been issued as to the extent of the damage. The apparent loss consisted of one waste container...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREAT OF FIRE INVADES PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE | 9/22/1928 | See Source »

...From fiscus (Latin)-"money basket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Money Basket | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

Leopold Zimmermann has lived for three-quarters of a century and he has often played a lone hand. A peddler, with a willow basket full of shoe strings and suspenders, driving bargains in a German accent on the doorsteps of Manhattan. That was Leopold Zimmermann in 1870. A thriving broker, with offices on Wall Street where the New York Stock Exchange now stands. In those days (the '80s) the sign above the door said Zimmermann & Forshay. But David F. S. Forshay died in 1895 and Leopold Zimmermann went on alone. A rich and feverishly busy potentate, with his offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honest Zimmermann | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...California woman placed a basket of live clams in her cellar over night-next morning, every clam had caught a mouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York Governors | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

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