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Word: lester (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Rangers. Foreseeing that the new rules would use up his men faster than the old, Coach Lester Patrick drilled three alternate forward lines instead of two. Formidable, the Rangers beat the fast Canadiens 8 to 3 last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hotter Hockey | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Hill. The hill referred to is that from which San Francisco's substantial families survey the Golden Gate. On its upper slopes a social scion (Lester Vail) becomes engaged to a cinemactress (Katherine Wilson) who, unknown to him, has climbed the hill from a bordello. Seven years have done much to make her forget that dark vale, but when she meets the most aggressive of her former swains, he nearly sends her hurtling down again. Failing that, he forces her to tell her history to her fiance. You are very much afraid that the pleasant fellow will overlook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Author Edmund Lester Pearson, 49. celebrated his 20th wedding-anniversary last year. Born in Newburyport, a Harvard graduate, he is the result of 200 years of Massachusetts deacons. In 1927 he left a position with New York's Public Library to write such unusual detective stories as Murder at Smutty Nose. He indulges a live scholarliness, particularly in the investigation and recital of historic murder cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dimeworthy Writers | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Haig Gregory Abdian of Arlington; Benjamin Alexander of Dorchester; Edward Park Anderson of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Lyman Henry Butter-field of Rochester, New York; Lester Cramer of Worcester; Emile Mack Despres of New York City; John Charles de Wilde of Shiloh, New Jersey; Joseph Leo Doob of New York City; Jeronie David Frank of New York City; Hirsch Jacob Freed of Brooklyn, New York; Abraham Grossman of Beverly; Ray Hardin of Cincinnati Ohio; Albert Gailord Hart II of White Plains, New York; Beaumont Alexander Herman of Somerville; Leo Tolstol Hurwitz, of Brooklyn. New York; Richard Whitney of Hartford, Connecticut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EIGHT JUNIORS, 32 SENIORS SELECTED BY PHI BETA KAPPA | 11/16/1929 | See Source »

...Including Harris M. Hanshue and James G. Woolley, Western Air Express; L. H. Mueller, Varney Air Lines; Col. M. H. Britten, Northwest Airways; Paul Henderson and Lester D. Seymour, National Air Transport; Phil Johnson, Boeing Air Transport; George Schierberg, Robertson Aircraft Corp.; Gen. John F. O'Ryan and James A. Walsh, Colonial Air Transport; Clifford Ball, Clifford Ball Air Lines; Hainer Hinshaw, Universal Air Lines; Alex H. Beard, Continental Air Lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Mail Contracts | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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