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Word: falle (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quiet blue suit when he landed, his exuberance was betrayed by a cravat of lavender and mottled green. Cried he: "I'm cocksure about the future of American business. . . . The Presidential election has nothing to do with it! ... Business will keep on being good through the summer and fall. . . . Yes, sir, I am cocksure about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: May 21, 1928 | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...holes in the trunks and roots, injects 75 to 100 gallons of a secret soluble aniline dye. For four days the tree sucks up the dye. On the third day afterward the leaves begin to turn pink, violet, blue, red; the wood becomes tinted. After two weeks the leaves fall off, to grow out desirably colored the next year, according to Herr Behr. The wood however can be immediately cut, polished, prepared for futuristic furniture and novelties. The dye brings out the grain, shows off the polish, lasts as long as the wood. For more conservative households beeches can turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Devices | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Entries in the meet are open to all men who played football last spring or this spring, or who intend to play next fall, except winners of the football "H". Medals for first place and prizes for second and their places will be awarded in the 50-yard dash, the 220-yard dash, the mile run, the shot put and the discus throw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD FOOTBALL PLAYERS TO COMPETE IN TRACK MEET | 5/19/1928 | See Source »

Entertainment and talks on various aspects of football will feature the fourth and last meeting of the regular series of spring football meetings, to be held at the Varsity Club at 6.45 o'clock on Tuesday evening. Work for the summer and plans for the early fall practice will be outlined. The meeting is open to all men interested in football...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD FOOTBALL PLAYERS TO COMPETE IN TRACK MEET | 5/19/1928 | See Source »

...prophesying about an issue so delicately balanced as that of tomorrow's meet the dope sheets are already appearing. A former Harvard captain gives Yale a three point advantage. But that, it appears, is only mathematics, and to a Harvard man such mathematics make very little appeal. One cannot fall to read between the lines that Harvard determination is worth far more than three points. A prominent Boston sports writer, more ingenious in the perilous art of doping, given two columns of figures, one for the optimist, the other for the conservative. The first reads eighty points for Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DOPE SWEET | 5/18/1928 | See Source »

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