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Word: buns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being brought up to date by Gilbert Patten, who created him under the name of Burt L. Standish. Now he will probably live in his rewritten version in Harkness Brick Court, exercise under the eagle eye of Bob Kiphuth in the new Whitney Memorial Gymnasium and snatch a toasted bun for breakfast at the new Ac Longley's, where Mrs. Graves is no longer cashier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/13/1932 | See Source »

...passes. In Toronto, needing one game more to end the series, the Maple Leafs quickly piled up five goals. Only one Ranger shot, by Frank Boucher, got past Lome Chabot, who used to be goalie for the Rangers. In the last period, Boucher was busy again. He passed to Bun Cook for one goal, made two more himself in less than two minutes. By this time it was too late. The Maple Leafs stopped protecting their lead long enough to score one more goal, won the third game 6 to 4 and Toronto's first Stanley Cup since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stanley Cup: Apr. 18, 1932 | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...goal to get up speed when carrying the puck. Last week, Howie Morenz received a cup for being the most valuable player to his team in the National Hockey League. In the second game, after 59 min., 32 sec., of overtime play to settle a 3-10-3 tie, Bun Cook of the Rangers made a goal on a pass from his brother Bill.* The Rangers won the third game 1 to 0. By this time, two of the Canadiens best forwards, Aurel Joliat (left wing) and Pit Lepine (alternate center) had been injured enough to keep them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stanley Cup: Apr. 4, 1932 | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...friend's montre was a clock no bigger than a large bun. He had bought it in Geneva, where the things were made. Now it was broken. Could M. Jeanrichard do anything about it? M. Jeanrichard could try. He took the watch apart, spent several weeks trying to put it together again. Finally he sold out his forge and went to Geneva. He returned to establish watchmaking in Le Locle. One of his apprentices was a youth named Pellaton. Long after Blacksmith Jeanrichard was dead, Pellatons made watches, saw them grow smaller & smaller, finer & finer. The present Pellaton, Georges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Electric Watch | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...Columbia College had 227 students and several buildings at Madison Avenue and 49th Street. Aged 16, N. M. Butler, son of a New Jersey merchant, matriculated in 1878 to find only four of his classmates younger than himself. Slight, slick-haired young Butler busied himself winning prizes ("bun-yanking"), assimilating learning in enormous doses. He edited a college paper, Acta Columbiana, drafted the freshman class constitution. Politically-minded, oratorical, he was interested in everything but athletics. He was fit, though, set himself a private record by walking 45 mi. in 12 hr. on an Adirondack trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Morningside's Miracle | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

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