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Word: green (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moran, 22, who murdered two Brooklyn policemen in 1926. Convict Moran was playing pinochle with his keeper and talking to Warden Lawes and Father McCaffrey, the prison chaplain. About 1 a. m. some others came in. Convict Moran lit a cigaret. They led him to, and through, a little green door. He flipped away his cigaret and sat down silently in the electric chair. Six minutes later he was pronounced dead. It was New York's 288th execution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: At Sing Sing | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...crackers" in popular estimation. National Biscuit is the largest biscuit manufacturer in the world, has never reported a deficit, had a net income of $13,038,000, first nine months of 1928. Its president, Roy Everett Tomlinson, has been with the company since 1903. He succeeded Founder Adolphus Williamson Green to the presidency in 1917. He is 51, looks younger, and is so sincerely publicity-shy that even his friend Bruce Barton, famed advertising man, author and interviewer, cannot get a story from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: N. B. C--Shredded Wheat | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...LIFE AND TRAGEDY OF ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA-A Biography- Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden- Longmans Green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Omens | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...Green 1G. president: W. H. Boldt '30, manager; G. W. Briggs '31, treasurer; H. P. Moulton 11, secretary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anderson to Lead Band | 12/20/1928 | See Source »

Tonight's lineup for the Harvard team will contain not a single player who started the 1928 season. The three sophomores on the team. Upton, Farrell, and Rex replace Barbee, Rarper, and Green, of last year's five. Several men from the football squad, who were expected, have failed to turn up, so that there is an unusual amount of inexperienced material in tonight's contest. Captain O'Connell and Wenner are the veterans, the former a letterman and a senior while the latter, a junior, was a regniar at times during last season but failed to hold the position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COURT TEAM OPENS ITS SEASON TONIGHT | 12/19/1928 | See Source »

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