Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard men want to maintain themselves in their present precarious usefulness to Radcliffe, they must see that abnormally large buttons are issued to the cadets this week-end. The cogent critique printed elsewhere in this issue of the CRIMSON points to these brass protuberances as the one flaw in the otherwise enchanting make up of the men from West Point. Apparently the only hope lies in making these buttons large enough to balance the captivating effect of the gold braid decorations, each with its story of hard work and romantic adventure...
West Branch, pop. 745, was becoming crowded with brass bands and parading visitors to the number of 15,000 or more, but the Hoovers were permitted to go alone to the graves of the Nominee's parents, Jesse Hoover, the West Branch blacksmith, and his wife, Huldah. They both died before the Nominee...
...working capital over $77,000,000. While Montana now yields first place to Arizona as a copper-producing state, the copper camp at Butte has disgorged one-sixth of all the copper mined in the world. And in 1922, Anaconda bought both the "biggest" American Brass Co. and, from the Guggenheim family, controlling interest in the Chile Copper...
...record . . . "he repeatedly put his foot on the brass rail and blew the foam off the glass . . . horrible vice conditions . . . nullify . . . betrayal...
...George W. Button Jr., of Manhattan and Darien, Conn., was master of ceremonies at a seaplane and motorboat regatta last week. He stood on the dock, signalled for the start, uttered a cry of sudden pain. A burning wad from the little brass cannon, used as a starting gun, had penetrated his left leg to a depth of one inch...