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Word: flint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anciently a man with bunched shoulder muscles squatted on his lean haunches and, with a piece of chipped flint, scratched a design on a piece of bone. That was writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fountain Pens | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...Whiting '28, head usher, will be assisted by: H. W. Bragdon '28, W. N. Bump '28, E. F. Clark '28, W. B. S. Clymer '29, T. Flint '29, F. B. Thurbor '30, A. R. Hawes '28, R. B. O'R. Hocking '28, C. H. Norris '29, K. A. Perry '28, LeB. H. Sparrow '28, and R. A. Stout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOURTH FACULTY TEA WILL BE GIVEN IN THE UNION TODAY | 12/16/1927 | See Source »

...Other Chevrolet assembling plants are at Detroit, Tarreytown, N. Y., Norwood, Ohio, Buffalo, N. Y., St. Louis, Mo., Janesville, Wis., Oakland, Calif., and Flint, Mich. General Motors' other cars-Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Oakland, Buick, LaSalle and Cadillac-are assembled at their respective factories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Atlanta's Gain | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...still was healthy. He imported spark plugs and sold them to the then small and experimenting U. S. motor manufacturers. Twenty years ago he began a small factory in Boston to make them himself. William Crapo Durant, planning to organize General Motors, built a factory with him at Flint, Mich., and the fame of Albert Champion, racer, faded behind the greater fame of his initials which trademarked the spark plugs he made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Death of Champion | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...scout and campfire girl. Nevertheless even the urbanite is not bereft of all native cunning. The CRIMSON makes no promises and, toward off possible future recriminations, it has no regrets. But in the chill October twilight, then, and then only, may the woodsman, fortified with a compass and flint for igniting fires, flaunt his rural and evergreen prowess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSTN'T TOUCH | 10/21/1927 | See Source »

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