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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What is a meteor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brightest Boys | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Publications which challenged the winner were the Blair Breeze, the Exonian, the Hill News, The Meteor of the Virginia Episcopal School. The Philippians of Andover, the Mercersberg News, the Red and White of St. George's, the Reserve Record of the Western Reserve Academy, and the Taft Papyrus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOTCHKISS RECORD WINS CRIMSON CUP FOR 1928-29 | 5/10/1929 | See Source »

Certainly much larger is the yet unfound meteorite which ripped into northeastern Arizona an unknown number of years ago and formed Meteor Crater (also called Coon Butte) about two miles east of Canyon Diablo. That meteorite ploughed a circular hole 4,000 ft. in diameter. 600 ft. deep, and threw up a rim 150 ft. above the surrounding plain. For years miners have been trying to locate its buried mass, for the sake of its iron and nickel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Meteorites | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...cruiser, Mr. Wolfe noticed the large popular interest in motor boating and reflected that a standardized motor boat, built on a mass-production motor car basis, could be sold at a price within the reach of the moderately well-to-do. From this idea, with amazing rapidity, resulted the Meteor Runabout, a 27-footer which seats ten persons, makes 30 m. p. h. and sells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Motor Boats | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

Inasmuch as runabouts of this type are usually priced at about $3,000, Mr. Wolfe's exhibit attracted un usual attention. Mr. Wolfe has a distinct profile resem blance to John Barrymore. His catalog contains the profile and also a back cover illustration of a Meteor ambulance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Motor Boats | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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