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...outdone, the be-muscled mentor presented Hutter from himself and the squad, a statuette of a swimmer for the Crimson leader's "competitive ability and spirit of leadership." Getchell awarded each Varsity man an engraved watch-fob, gifts from the H.A.A. to the team as winners of the Eastern League title and victors over Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tankmen Finish Season Gaily With Semi-Freak Meet, Dinner | 4/21/1938 | See Source »

...said he was "looking for a cheap and warm and comfortable place to write a humorous novel of California." . . . At William & Mary College homecoming of alumni last week, the colored Henry Billups, bell-ringer of the college for 48 years, was given a gold watch and chain and bell fob, a new broom and a Bible. An early Christmas for Henry this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 25, 1935 | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

Lost--At or near Harvard Square, lady's silver watch and fob. Finder will be suitably rewarded by leaving same at a Garden street, Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THROUGH THE YEARS | 5/23/1934 | See Source »

...these contained enough shows to stir the civic pride of the most callous. There was Peter Stuyvesant's sword, Alexander Hamilton's desk, a set of George Washington's false teeth and the last of his real ones?extracted by Dentist John Greenwood and worn on his watch fob for many years, an idea later adopted by members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. There was Boss Tweed's fire engine, Americus No. 6, whose dashboard was decorated with the original Tammany Tiger. There were ship models of every carrier that has plowed the harbor from the Half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Civic Museum | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

...Levy's antique shop on Madison Ave., Manhattan. Mr. Brisbane told Mr. Ford he ought to advertise his cars in the American Weekly (Hearst Sunday Supplement). Said Mr. Ford, "I guess you're right" and pulling a knife from his right trouser pocket, slipped it into his fob pocket. "That's how I make myself remember things," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 16, 1930 | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

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