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Word: byrds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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After services in the Baptist Church at Charlottesville-conducted by a Presbyterian, with a sermon by a Methodist * -the President shook hands with Governors Angus W. McLean of North Carolina and Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, who escorted him to the mansion of President Edwin A. Alderman of the University of Virginia for a buffet lunch. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was there. President Coolidge twitted Governor Byrd about a cartoon in the Richmond Times-Dispatch which showed a Southern.Colonel peering through a knothole in the fence of a football field. A sign on the fence said: "Football, Thanksgiving Day-University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Skunked | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...Radcliffe Choral Society will give its next concert on Sunday at 3.30 o'clock at the Repertory Theatre, Boston. The program, featuring Christmas music, follows: Christmas Music 1. Good News from Heaven Bach 2. Two Carols Warlock 3. A Carowle for Christmas Day Byrd Two Madrigals and Two Rounds 1. The Nightingale From Pamelia 1609 2. Oaken Leaves From Pamelia 1609 3. Weep oh mine eyes Weelkes 4. Come Sirrah Jack Ho Wilbye Hecula's Lament Bolst Three Choruses from Secular Cantatas Bach Conductor G. Wallace Woodworth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Girls Sing | 12/6/1928 | See Source »

Fokker Aircraft Corp. New York, N. Y. / Tri-Motor, Universal / Passenger & cargo / . . . . . .$14,200-$60,000 / Fokker Tri-Motor F-7 was used by Byrd to fly from Spitzbergen to the North Pole and back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...kind of work that needed doing at once was what Governor Byrd of Virginia started planning-measures to get the anti-Smith Democrats back into their party before Hooverism's efficient follow-up men should come along to make permanent the breaches in the onetime Solid South. Governor Byrd's plan was to abolish his State's primary election, to which Hoover Democrats could not be admitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Democracy | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...some hug the earth on their way to receiving sets; others reach the sets tardily by reflection from the Heaviside Layer. Probably the sprayed waves, going by the two paths, interfere with each other. One idea is that the Layer lies close to earth at the two Poles. The Byrd Antarctic expedition took along a Westinghouse ossilograph to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Focused Radio | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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