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Word: olds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uproarious nine-knots-per-hour came the doughty Sternwheelers Tom Greene and Betsy Ann at the grim finish of a 21-mile race upstream from Cincinnati. Long before they could see which was ahead the crowd could hear the roar of the laboring engines. Children cringed, fearing an explosion. Old rivermen felt young again at the familiar sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Sternwheelers | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...disputing the result when the ships, carried far upstream by their momentum, returned. The judges declared the Tom Greene had won by a few feet, repeating the performance of its sister ship the Chris Greene which defeated the Betsy Ann in last year's first revival of an old-time race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Sternwheelers | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

Willys-Overland Co. represented a 1908 reorganization of the old Overland Co., a panic-victim of 1907. Mr. Willys, who was then Overland's sales-agent in Elmira, snatched the company out of a receivership, putting up $350 to help meet a payroll. He reorganized the company with himself as president, treasurer, general manager, sales manager, purchasing agent. Like Glenn Hammond Curtiss, Mr. Willys was once a cycle-maker. His bicycle plant was at Canandaigua, N. Y., not far from Hammondsport, N. Y., the birthplace of Mr. Curtiss who later built up JOHN NORTH WILLYS Chicago bought him out. Curtiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Willys Out | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Samuel R. Rosoff arrived in Manhattan from Russia for the second time in his life. On his first arrival he was an 11-year-old potato-peeler. Last week he occupied princely staterooms on the Berengaria. In Russia he, a potent Manhattan contractor, turned down a 200-million-dollar subway and waterworks contract for Moscow, because the U. S. does not recognize the Soviets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sport | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...next month. The team: Mrs. D. C. Shepherd-Barron, Mrs. P. H. Covefl, Mrs. M. H. Watson, Mrs. L. R. C. (Peggy Saunders) Mitchell, Miss Betty Nuthall. Youngsters passed over: Eileen Bennett, Joan Fry, Joan Ridley. Fight. Because he seemed to have no intention of carrying out an old contract with Arthur Bulow, his onetime manager, Heavyweight Max Schmeling was forbidden to box in New York State by the State Boxing Commission. The Bulow contract called for a fight with Phil Scott, third-rate Britisher. If Schmeling fights Scott he may thereafter fight in New York. If he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport Notes, Jul. 22, 1929 | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

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