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Word: crescents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HARVARD CRESCENT A. C. Tudor, l.w. r.w., McTiernan Putnam, c. c., Schroeder Giddens, r.w. l.w., Puet H. Bigelow, l.d. r.d., Pettis A. Bigelow, r.d. l.d., Gabler Elkins, g. g., Pfaff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD TO FACE CRESCENT A. C. SIX | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Forthwith, from many a cover, svelte females simpered; deep-browed males smirked. All were ruminant. Their cud, readers learned, was PRIMLEY'S PEPSIN GUM. And Pioneer Thompson's illustrations dared even more. They caused apple-cheeked lasses to pedal CRESCENT, RAMBLER bicycles. Other lasses donned DR. WARNER'S CORALIE CORSETS, "Fitted to Living Models." Subscribers responded; magazines prospered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Death of an Agent | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...years have brought to the attention of the authorities. A suggestion made by W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, called for radical changes in the architecture of the present Stadium, including the removal of the colonnade and the elevation of the Stadium itself in the form of a crescent. This plan met with numerous objections, one of the foremost of which was the status of the Stadium as a gift of alumni, to which the first contribution was made by the Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporation Vetoes Plan of Overseers for Big Stadium | 6/1/1928 | See Source »

Samuel Marinus Zwemer is a big-boned, crude-featured, Dutch-descended son of Michigan. He has been called the most daring, resourceful and successful Christian Missionary to the Moslem world. When the issue is Cross against Crescent he is proud to stick at nothing. Therefore it was but characteristic that Dr. Zwemer should have been caught red handed at Cairo, last week, in the act of proselytizing students at the Mohammedan University of El-Azhar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Missionary | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

Thirteen of those 15 grave men who have been directing the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. to crescent prosperity last week made themselves comfortable in the directors' room of the company's Manhattan suite and, having digested the predigested reports of the road's efficacy during the past year, made a decision which they knew would be pleasing to their stockholders who are to meet at Topeka, Kan., the last Thursday of this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Atchison's $10 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

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