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Word: competitione (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Fireman, Save my Child" is to be the title of the annual play of the Hasty Pudding Club, it was announced last night by Kendrick Kerns '30 in charge of arrangements for the show. The play, written by G. A. Weller '29, former editorial chairman of the CRIMSON, satirically depicts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FIREMAN, SAVE MY CHILD," IS TITLE OF NEW PUDDING PLAY | 2/26/1929 | See Source »

One item in the dispatches is revealing in its matter-of-factness. "Both sides are looting and making heavy extortions from the populace." There have probably been few cases in history in which war has been so much at the expense of the inhabitants as in the struggles in modern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TROUBLED WATERS | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Behind its failure is a story of petty Louisiana politics. Each bidder for the bridge franchise secured the services of a former Governor as counsel. When the New Orleans investment house of Watson-Williams won the bid, a retaliatory political campaign was begun for free ferries and a free bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Bridges v. Ferries | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Tennis elders did not waste much time shaking their heads over the defeat of William Tatem Tilden II in straight sets in the finals of the Brooklyn Heights indoor invitation tennis tournament last week, his first competition since his reinstatement as an amateur. Instead, all eyes were on his conqueror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No. 6 Man | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Soon Mr. Pitcairn and Señor de la Cierva may be reimbursed for their experimental investment. The autogiro is entered in the Guggenheim Fund's "safe aircraft competition" to develop an aerodynamically safe plane. Twelve U. S.. British and Italian manufacturers have already entered the competition. First...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Pitcairn-Autogiro | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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