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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard started its scoring early, aided by a high wind which seemed to trouble the visiting gardeners in judging files. B. H. Bassett '31, diminutive lead-off man, started the first inning with a Texas leaguer to short center. He stole second, was advanced to third by Donaghy's single...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD BUNCHES HITS TO BEAT BATES | 4/24/1929 | See Source »

When Manhattan top-hatted and bustled into the 90's the late Clara B. Spence founded a school for girls. Extremely correct, it was on 48th street, just off Fifth Avenue-a school for gentlewomen. Even Manhattan's late Social Arbiter Ward McAllister approved. Last week in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Spence | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Officials of the Bureau of Standards affixed 700 stamps to envelopes, put them in a revolving barrel, turned it with electric power until the edges of the envelopes were worn off: Not one stamp left its envelope. Results: proof that there is no base for recent charges that U. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sticky | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Getting heavy planes off the ground requires more power than flying them straightaway. Hence, attempts to shove them upward from inclined planes; hence, the device of the German Dr. Hugo Junkers, which last week's despatches reported successful. He places the plane which is to fly, on the wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Booster | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

(2 of 2) reconstruction for which he was personally responsible - at home, in Russia, Ireland, Turkey, Palestine. Notoriously hostile to the Bolshevik regime, he castigates the man whose body is "still preserved in pickle for the curiosity of the Moscow public and for the consolation of the faithful." - Lenin. "In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Winnie the Poohbah | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

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