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Word: firsts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first two games resulted in one-sided victories over Springfield and North Carolina by scores of 30 to 0 and 20 to 0. The Crimson eleven displayed a wealth of power in these encounters but as usual in the early season lacked polish and finesse. A noticeable weakness, which was to prove a nemesis all season, early began to crop out. This was a failure to use or cope with an aerial game successfully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Year Has Been the Most Active in History of University | 6/18/1929 | See Source »

...from prosperous has been the U. S. Hide & Leather industry during the first quarter of 1929. Hides would sell at 19½?, then would come a period of stagnation, then trading would reopen at 16½?. there would be another stagnant period, then another reopening at 15½?. It was like a Wheat Market which opened only one day a week, and a falling market in which lack of continuous trading made it difficult to get out from under on future contracts that would result in a loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hide Exchange | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Last week Dean Meeks heard that Burton Kenneth Johnson, 22, son of a Chicago dentist, had won the 1929 Prix de Rome in Architecture-third to be given to a Yale student in the past five years. True, Architect Johnson first went to Yale last fall, after four years architectural study at the University of Illinois, where he won honorable mention in last year's Prix Competition. But the honor of tuning him to prize-winning pitch was Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Merry Meeks | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...Three Americans, three Hungarians, three Russians and an Italian will next year take seats left vacant by ten men in the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. One of them, First 'Cellist Alfred Wallenstein, descends from the famed militarist immortalized by Schiller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ditson's $800,000 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...Three Americans, three Hungarians, three Russians and an Italian will next year take seats left vacant by ten men in the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. One of them, First 'Cellist Alfred Wallenstein, descends from the famed militarist immortalized by Schiller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Do, Re, Mi | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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