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Word: captains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confused with Captain John K. Robison, retired, who, as chief of the Navy's Bureau of Engineering in 1921, recommended leasing the Elk Hills and Teapot Dome oil reserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Annapolis Change | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Patriots boiled last week over a stricture passed by Captain Charles W. R. Knight, British ornithologist. Captain Knight had been making money in the U. S. with a cinema-and-lecture on eagles. Scrutinizing a U. S. coin he had observed that the bald-headed or American eagle depicted thereon was "just taking off instead of in full flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Feet of a Duck | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Yesterday afternoon, William Lawrence Breese '31, of Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y. was elected to captain the Freshman tennis team, after a match with the Dartmouth first year men which had to be called off early on account of rain. Breese prepared at St. Mark's, where he played on the tennis team and rowed on the crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NETMEN ARE FAVORED IN MATCH WITH M.I.T. TODAY | 5/12/1928 | See Source »

Singles No. 1, Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29: No. 2, M. T. Hill '30: No. 3, Arthur Ingraham Jr. '30: No. 4, K. B. Ward '30: No. 5, J. H. Appleton '29: No. 6, C. R. Hamlen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NETMEN ARE FAVORED IN MATCH WITH M.I.T. TODAY | 5/12/1928 | See Source »

Weakened by the loss of Captain W. H. White '29, who has recently undergone an operation for appendicitis, and F. A. Clark '29, who is now rowing at No. 6 on the University crew, the Crimson riders will be somewhat handicapped in this first match. During the practice sessions of the past week, however, held on the fields of R. G. Shaw II '93 at West Newton and the Dedham Polo and Country Club, the team has made a good showing against the Freshman horsemen and the club quartet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY HORSEMEN MEET YALE TEAM TODAY | 5/12/1928 | See Source »

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