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Word: dynamos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the verbal smoke had cleared away, at least two things were apparent to impartial eyes: Lou Ambers is not a great fighter, Henry Armstrong is losing his steam. Although last week's defeat was his first in 47 fights, the little black dynamo who knocked out 35 of 37 opponents within 18 months has chalked up only three knockouts in his last nine matches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Armstrong v. Ambers | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...assistants, Dr. John Raymond Johnson and Miss Marjory Metcalf Taylor, persuaded six men and four women to pedal furiously on a stationary bicycle every day until each was exhausted. The bicycle operated a dynamo which was connected with a number of electric lamps and a wattmeter which measured the amount of energy each subject was capable of expending. After about 30 days of this sort of thing, the scientists began to feed each cyclist daily glasses of chilled orange and lemon juice containing unflavored gelatin, made from the bones of animals. The men were given 60 grams (two ounces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gelatin Pep | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...Green team placed Bud Foster, offense dynamo, Captain Jim Feeley, and Goalie Wes Goding on the first all star team. Budge Miller, Princeton defense man, completes the lineup. QUAD LEAGUE ALL STARS First Team Second Team Harding (H) lw Walsh (D) Foster (D) c Wyer (P) Patrick (H) rw Sullivan (D) Miller (P) ld Howe (Y) Feeley (D) rd Kite (Y) Goding (D) g Freedley (H) Alternates -- Bordley (P), Burr (Y), Jameson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harding, Patrick Place on First All Quadrangular Six | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

When he was six, towheaded Philo Taylor Farnsworth became so delighted with a toy dynamo that he solemnly declared he hoped he had been born an inventor. By 1921, when he was 15, Philo had conceived a basic principle of television-electronic scansion of an image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Banker Backed | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...short, I am to be, if we both can stand the strain necessary to adjustment, the "alter ego" of a human dynamo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 24, 1938 | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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