Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jumbo', our star performer, can play the national anthem without cue or guidance from me, in approximately 30 seconds. This feat is the result of years of practice, during which the seal is drilled in the progression of notes, and is the most difficult of all the acts...
Died. Archibald Bannatyne, 78, retired official of Waterbury Clock Co., Bannatyne Watch Co. and Ansonia Clock Co., inventor of the first $1 watch (the "Jumbo" which he sold to Robert H. Ingersoll & Brother); in Naugatuck, Conn...
...surveying fractious elephants at a distance. Khartoum, although he ate 91,250 lb. of hay last year, had gained only one quarter-inch. This brings him to 10 ft. 84 in., one half-inch short of the world's elephant record for all time held by the late Jumbo, famed Victorian elephant...
...first assumptions of American education seems to be that fathers and mothers are invariably incompetent and that teachers, under the direction of skilled 'scientists in education,' are the proper and infallible guides of youth. Unfortunately, most parents are in fact deeply impressed by the current mumbo-jumbo obfuscation created by school masters as a class. . . . "Perhaps the time has arrived for a revolt against those who are now in control of American schools, a revolt not in the name of reaction but in the name of common sense, a revolt against a radicalism which seems to believe that...
Little is known about the strength of the Tufts team inasmuch as this is their first meet of the season. On paper, however, the Jumbo matmen appear exceptionally strong this year, and the Crimson will have a stiff job to throw them. HARVARD 1933 TUFTS 1933 Keller 115-lb. class Armano Bronstein 125-lb. class Borsari Johnson 135-lb. class Reggiant Crandon 145-lb. class Watson Goddard 155-lb. class Story Keyser 165-lb. class Cochrane Metz 175-lb. class Foster Burrage Unlimited Mann...