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Word: parkes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince of Wales, who recently broke his collarbone in one of his periodical riding tumbles, was viewed by Londoners riding in Hyde Park, showing little sign of his accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Mar. 10, 1924 | 3/10/1924 | See Source »

...present Miss Ferber is living in Manhattan and working on a play with George Kaufman. She has taken a fairly long lease on an apartment which overlooks Central Park. There she lives with her mother, a genial, happy person who takes much delight in entertaining Miss Ferber's friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: She Is Never Sloppy | 3/10/1924 | See Source »

...Look at the 1916 season, when Mitchell held the reins of Harvard baseball. That was the year we beat the World's Champion Boston Red Sox team at Fenway Park 1 to 0 with Eddie Mahan pitching. When the Yale series rolled around Mahan was out of the lineup and these same Boston papers that say 'hopeless!' now said 'hopeless!' then. Mitchell won the New Haven game with Whitney, his second-choice pitcher, in the box. Then, before the Harvard Class Day crowd, he sent to the mound a lad named Harrison, a substitute Freshman infielder who had never even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO BEGIN BASEBALL CAMPAIGN MONDAY | 2/20/1924 | See Source »

Lemapt Hpham Harris '26 of Tuxedo Park...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE TO ELECT NEW OFFICERS TODAY | 2/12/1924 | See Source »

John M. Larsen, importer of the famous Junker all-metal airplanes, collected $170,000 following a fire at his hangars at Central Park, L. I. He now has won his second suit against the Globe and Rutgers Fire Insurance Co. and the Commercial Union Assurance Co. The underwriters sought to recover their money on the basis of a confession of arson and conspiracy by Larsen's mechanic. But the confession extracted by detectives employed by a personal enemy of Larsen's, under threats of the application of the Mann Act, failed to impress the jury. The case aroused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Fokker's Predictions | 2/11/1924 | See Source »

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