Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stunt fliers, automobile racers, pearl divers, bull fighters risk wicked wounds in the exercise of their bodies for gold. Not so fisticuffers, footballers, baseball players, golf champions who make most of the money. This winter, however, has seen a shift in money values which brings one sport at least nearer a financial level with its vicious risks. Professional hockey players are being bartered for many thousands, receiving presumably increasingly fat dividends for their efforts. One rumor floats about that the Montreal Canadians hold Howie Morenz, greatest of all hockey players...
...Pearl Harbor, the great strategic naval base of the Pacific, has been erected at the crossroads of the ocean.* Ships from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Panama, Auckland in New Zealand, Sydney in New South Wales (Australia), Hong Kong, Yokohama, Manila arrive and set forth daily...
...Pearl Harbor that Edward...
...Another statement on Presidential jack-knives was found necessary and W. E. Fulton of Newark, Ohio, whose present to the President of a pearl-handled whittling instrument was accepted and acknowledged (TIME, Dec. 19), can feel justly proud. Last week President Coolidge received so many jack-knives from other people that he had to begin giving them away. All were a propos the President's remark that when his term ends he is going to whittle a while (TIME, Nov. 21). That remark having been meant figuratively, even humorously, its maker felt he was receiving jack-knives under false pretenses...
President Darwin Pearl Kingsley of the New York Life Insurance Co. attacked the "foolish philosophy of the Declaration of Independence" before the 21st annual convention of life insurance presidents in Manhattan last week. As all men would be, life insurance men and social welfare leaders were startled. They listened eagerly to the rest of his speech...