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Word: captains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Captain Stayton's desires & devices were as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wet Plans | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...Captain Stayton paraphrased an imaginary income-taxpayer's reasoning: "'I want to get rid of these taxes. If the average man wants to drink beer and pay taxes on it, why, hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wet Plans | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...Captain Stayton bowed to his chief foe. "The Anti-Saloon league is as afraid of a referendum as a woman is of a mouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wet Plans | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...Superintendent McBride of the Anti-Saloon League bowed to Captain Stayton and the A. A. P. A.: "They can get it [U. S. sentiment on liquor] for 50c in any good almanac or other compilation of the returns of last election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wet Plans | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

Morley Drury, captain at Southern California, is placed with Oosterbaan, Michigan; Bettencourt, St. Mary's; Webster, Yale; Welch, Pittsburgh; and Joesting, Minnesota; on nearly every All-American selection in the U. S. sporting press. He justified these judgments last Saturday by turning himself brilliantly loose against Washington; leading his eleven to a 33-13 victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football Matches: Dec. 12, 1927 | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

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