Word: discs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third period the schoolboys showed some teamwork, Harlowe pushing the disc home past Jackson for their lone count...
When ticket No. 17,229 fell from the ticket globe no stir was occasioned; but an instant later, amid a deadly hush, the $2,500,000 Grand Prize disc was seen to have rattled down...
Christie's, smartest of London auction rooms, buzzed eagerly last week, as an auctioneer rapped to announce that he would sell the 61 ½%-carat diamond "Golden Dawn," since 1913 the property of its disc verer Captain C. R. Lucas, who found it near Kimberly, South Africa...
...though eight million miles nearer Earth than last week, was more visible from Earth's southern hemisphere. There are no major telescopes in the southern hemisphere. With hollow clankings of their metallic optic muscles, the great, unblinking eyes slowly scoured the heavens, coming to focus on a bright disc, 1/76th the size of Earth's full moon at its zenith...
Nearer to men than it had come for two years, but seven million miles less near than it had come two years ago, came Mars. Faintly reddish in tinge, it rose to the zenith, a bright disc 76 times smaller (optically) than Earth's full moon, giving U. S. astronomers a far better view than they had in 1924, when Mars hung low on the horizon. Being the only planet near enough for men to study with their telescopes, Mars has for centuries excited speculation as to whether or not it is inhabited, speculation which had lately given...