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Word: numberous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whitbeck '29, playing number two position on the University team lost his match by a narrow margin after taking the first game, while Hooe of the Boat Club and S. B. Meyers '29, played five games with the Harvard man losing the deciding game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ISELIN DEFEATS BAKER AS TEAM OPENS SEASON | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...page 7 of your issue of Nov. 12 an item which quotes my father as saying: "He feels like I did in 1908, not by any means like I felt in 1912." About 12 years ago my Uncle, Mr. Horace Taft, was distinctly heard by a number of members of the family at the Murray Bay lunch table to say of Tom Shevlin, "H« had himself paged in hotels by a boy waving an envelope like it was a telegram." He denied it and my father sided with him, saying that no Taft could ever use "like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Casey pulled up that Reno hill, He tooted for the crossing with an awful shrill, The switchman knew by the engine's moans That the man at the throttle was Casey Jones. He pulled lip within two miles of the place, Number four stared him right in the face, Turned to the fireman, said; "Boys, you'd better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Jones | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Chile. Astute observers have called Chileans the Prussians of South America. The comparison is worth remembering. Here is a compact, militant, intensely nationalist people. Though considerably less in number than the residents of New York City, Chileans command official parity among the Great Powers. Thus the U.S. sends an ambassador to 4,000,000 alert Chileans but has never sent more than a minister to 400,000,000 spineless Chinese (see China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: On the Map | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Intramural athletic prospered unusually well this fall, as shown by the statistics which A. W. Samborski 1G. has compiled, relative to the number of men who were out for sports, and the sports attracting these men. Every encouragement has been given during the past season to the men to enter these sports and the figures show that the encouragement has been well received. Outstanding among the events to be held during the coming winter season is the fraternity swimming meet, for which definite arrangements will be made at the next meeting of the Intramural Council, on Tuesday, December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 728 MEN HAVE PARTICIPATED IN INTRAMURAL ATHLETICS | 12/7/1928 | See Source »

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