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Word: licensees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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"That codfish on the license plates has been a great advertisement," remarked Frank A. Goodwin, registrar of motor vehicles, whose dismissal is being threatened by Governor Alvan T. Fuller, as he stuck a small codfish pin onto a CRIMSON reporter's lapel in his office on Commonwealth Pier yesterday.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOODWIN TELLS REASON FOR LICENSE TAG CODFISH | 1/18/1928 | See Source »

Married. The youngest son of Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, Paul Thompson Sunday; to Mrs. Elene Herbert, of Chattanooga, Tenn.; at Tijuana, Mexico, to escape California's three-day marriage license law.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 9, 1928 | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

There died in Lynchburg, Virginia the other day Mr. W.D. Diuguid, a man who, more than any hero of Poe, was dogged into his grave by an obsession. The fact that his name was a palindrome, that is, read the same backward as forward, changed the life of Mr. Diuguid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOB | 12/1/1927 | See Source »

Dispatches from the alien world of English university life are not often of a nature to cause the student at Harvard to bow his head and give thanks for present blessings. Of this kind, however, is the information from Oxford that rules have been put into effect by the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WEARING OF THE GREEN | 11/17/1927 | See Source »

From the office of Frederick S. Duncan, for more than 20 years counsel for the Weed Chain Tire Grip Co. and its successor, the American Chain Co., came loud and speedy protest. He stated facts: The "Weed" tire chain was named after its inventor, Harry D. Weed, of Canastota (near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Greatly Exaggerated | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

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