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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several of the early dwellers on this spot were not content with their condition in the new land. Still more religious freedom than they enjoyed was their goal and they moved out with the first pastor. Thomas Hooker. More grazing territory for their cattle, and a plan of keeping the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Historic Site Fast Becoming Wiped Out By Steam Shovels in Construction of New Gym | 4/2/1929 | See Source »

It was stated that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the College had just voted that a grade of 70 percent in the admission examination in Advanced German or French, known on College Board Examinations as German or French cp 4, be accepted in satisfaction of the reading knowledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LANGUAGE GHOST SUFFERS SETBACK UNDER NEW RULE | 4/2/1929 | See Source »

"In my small plane, already heavily laden, I could take off but one man, and my orders were to save the one who most needed aid. Nobile was injured and so was one of his men. The latter was too heavy for the plane, but even when that was obvious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LUNDBORG DISCLAIMS TOO HASTY CENSURE OF NOBILE | 4/2/1929 | See Source »

Scientific boxing was somewhat absent from the trials of the annual University tournament which were held last night; but all the contestants went at each other with murder in their eyes, and all in all furnished some exciting three-round bouts which kept the gallery of 300 people in a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRELIMINARIES OF TOURNEY PROVIDE GORY SPECTACLE | 4/2/1929 | See Source »

Some years back, when George Leon Loft, son of George W. Loft, famed "penny-a-pound-profit" candyman, was a member of the New York Stock Exchange, he appeared on the trading floor in a smart new spring suit. Knowing his reputation for being ready to buy or sell anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sold | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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