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Word: dusters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dunster ever came a handicap in height with superior speed, and took their game from a tall but slow Eliot team. The score stood at 10-6 for the Funsters after the first half, but the Elephants were held to four points during the latter half while Duster piled up 14 points to run away with the game, 24-10. Duane Lanszerk of the Funsters took high scoring honors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Five Victorious Twice; Dunster, Matthews Win Handily | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

Corn, soybeans, alfalfa, wheat, cattle and hogs-everything had "done fine." Buildings gleamed in a new coat of white paint. New cider and fruit packing houses, equipped with stainless steel tanks and refrigerating units, stood near the main house. There was a new $1,500 orchard duster and an elevator that hoisted corn from the wagons into the cribs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Full Bins | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Bread & Poems. Black Bart was not the first man to snatch a Wells Fargo treasure box,* but he was far & away the most dashing. Wearing a flour sack with cutout eyeholes over his head and a long linen duster, he pulled his first job one sun-baked day in July by stepping out from behind a rock on a Calaveras County road and waving a sawed-off shotgun at Billy Hodges' stagecoach. "If they dare to shoot, give them a solid volley, boys," Black Bart shouted toward the rocks alongside the road. Driver Hodges, able to see half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stagecoach Business | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Eliot, next to best ball club last year, fielded a smooth-running team led by pitcher Hugh Whitman. Although outfit 6 to 4 by Duster, the Elephants pulled some fancy base stealing to break a 4 to 4 tie in the second and glide on easily to victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bellboy, Elephant Nines Score Wins As Season Opens | 4/21/1949 | See Source »

...last 30 years in his cluttered office and spotless laboratories trying to find ways to outmaneuver and defeat the tubercle bacillus. Still bright-eyed and vigorous but looking something like a fugitive from a Stanley Steamer, Dr. Corper wears a grey peaked cap and an oldfashioned, ankle-length canvas duster with note-stuffed pockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: T.B. Test | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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