Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bumper year for tackles, and two of the headliners, Nick Drahes and Tom Healey, lead the parade. Drahos of the Big Red, prominently mentioned for All-America honors is a fixture on the team, but Healey has only a slight edge over such worth- ies as George Sommers of Dartmouth and Bob Tierney of Princeton...
...bumper years, however, a few of the Professors listed are invariably not full-time men and give possibly only one course in the field of English. The present eight full Professors, however, give all of their time to the department...
...terrific speed", State Police, who are investigating the case, said last night. Wheeler's bicycle was found three quarters of a mile away from the site of the crash. Apparently the driver turned into a side road at this point and removed the wrecked bike from his front bumper...
Obscure were the origins of Breeze Corps., excellent its connections. Created in 1926 by Super-Salesman Joseph J. Mascuch (rhymes with "shoe"), who was formerly in the bumper business. Breeze established itself in Washington as an accepted supplier of aircraft parts to the Government (sales, 1927: $136,805; first nine months of 1938: $2,200,065). Adaptable and efficient, it succeeded also in getting an order for 12,000,000 lbs. of equipment for the stacks of the U. S. Government's Archives Building...
...extensible rear bumper which a parking motorist can crank out like a bustle to a distance of several feet, to prevent another car from parking too close behind...