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Word: coster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sisters will have captivated you completely, and you will find that you have gone back at least ten years. And inevitably you will join the ranks of those who sigh at the mention of either play and chortle "Oh, yes, the march of the Peers," or "When a coster leaves off beating up his mother...

Author: By R. K. L., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

Married. Ruth Fahnestock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harris Fahnestock; to A. Coster Schermerhorn, broker; in Manhattan. The bride drove to and from St. Thomas's Church in a brougham drawn by two perfectly matched sorrel horses, driven by the coachman who had officiated in the same capacity for the marriage of her parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...reduced his original 400 pounds of rare earth ores in his search. Scientists hailed him, particularly his countrymen. Though laboratories throughout the world are constantly searching for the remaining unknown elements, no other elemental discovery has been made since Hafnium, No. 72, in 1923, at Copenhagen, by Chemists Coster and Hevesy. And never before has a new element been first discovered in a U. S. laboratory. It may well mean for Dr. Hopkins, they said, the $40,000 Nobel chemistry prize in 1926, an honor won by no other U. S. chemist save Professor Theodore Richards in 1914 for work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A New Element | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

Married. Arthur Cheney Train, famed novelist (His Children's Children, The Needle's Eye, etc.), to Mrs. Helen Coster Gerard, former sister-in-law of onetime (1913-17) U. S. Ambassador to Germany James W. Gerard; at Suffern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 18, 1926 | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

Engaged. Arthur Cheney Train, 50, famed novelist, author of The Needle's Eye, His Children's Children, etc.; to Mrs. Helen Coster Gerard, former sister-in-law of James W. Gerard, onetime (1913-17) U. S. Ambassador to Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 4, 1926 | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

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