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Word: berths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twinkling twelve in Chicago were the first recruits of a force of Orientals whom the Pullman Co. might be mobilizing to dissolve a unique racial monopoly. Pullman officers "scouted" the notion; declared that Orientals, while deft as club car waiters, lack the physique required in a luggage-lugging, berth-boosting, window-opening Pullman porter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Club Cars Only | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

Monday. All day at his law office (Baker, Hostetler & Sidlo). Ten or a dozen callers on as many varied cases. . . . Boarded the 8:40 o'clock Baltimore & Ohio sleeper for Washington, D. C. Smoked a pipe (old, well-caked, straight-and-long stemmed, strong tobacco), retired, read in berth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Candidate Baker | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...Clark '29, at left tackle, was another who resigned his post to a Sophomore arriving late at the field. J. E. Barrett '30, Clark's understudy all season, filled the berth at the close of the work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BELL AND DOUGLAS JOIN CROSBY ON SICK LIST | 11/11/1927 | See Source »

...smile. To him the Othello of Louis Leon Hall was an excellent foil. Mr. Hall is portly, with a cheerful rotund face, which, well darkened, brought out the whites of his rolling eyes, and gave him the jolly aspect of a Moor who has made up many a Pullman berth in his time. It was perhaps to attain more dignity that he thundered and declaimed his lines, with sweeping gestures; but he did it well, and in his scenes with Desdemona he was all simple sincerity...

Author: By A. T. R. j., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/27/1927 | See Source »

...side lines a week ago, appeared in the Team B line-up yesterday while J. E. Barrett '30 retained his position at left tackle on the first string combination. It appears that the work of the Sophomore against Dartmouth last Saturday has won him the Team A berth over the head of Clark, who filled it until he was injured in the Holy Cross contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INDICATIONS POINT TO SHIFTS IN TEAM A RATING | 10/27/1927 | See Source »

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