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Word: plates (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years but well cared for, Mr. Duffy was dazzled to behold the burnished copper and carefully painted ironwork of a 5,000-gal. alcohol still, capable of filling a battery of 19-bbl. vats daily. Downstairs was a 5,000-gal. molasses vat. Throughout the house, parquet flooring and plate glass mirrors had been scrupulously polished. The control room for this $100,000 plant, which had taken six weeks to build and had been in operation only ten days, was located in the late Mrs. Belmont's bedroom. A sign outside the door warned: KEEP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Moonshine Mansion | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

...quiet street who finally sells the broiler, should he escape all his other criminal hazards, probably has his district and his customers and his wholesaler assigned him by poultry racketeers. In The Bronx, one night early last month, police caught seven hoodlums vigorously banging sawed-off billiard cues against plate glass and fixtures, hurriedly releasing crates of fowl at the market of S. S. & B. Poultry Corp. The hoodlums were arrested, arraigned for trial last week. Soon the S. S. & B.'s proprietors - Hyman Blank, Samuel Shipper and Samuel Weiner, whose business had already been chased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Poultry Racket | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

Leverett emerged victorious over Dunster, and Lowell defeated Kirkland in House Baseball games yesterday. The rabbits were aided by the expert pitching of Mancini, who held Dunster to six hits, and hit a home run in his own turn at the plate. The final score was 12-11. In the other game the bellboys trounced Kirkland to the tune of 16 to 6. The outstanding feature of this tilt was a circuit swat by Fox of Kirkland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS FROM THE HOUSES | 4/28/1933 | See Source »

...first team was outfit 16 to 10 and was slow to get a start in the game. In the second inning B.U., after two outs massed four runs, and followed up with three more two innings later. Hovenanian starred for Harvard at the plate by getting three hits out of five times at bat. Woods played a stellar game in the field. Three Crimson pitchers failed to fame the B.U., bats, Croke making a home run for the opponents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO 1936 BASEBALL TEAMS WIN FROM B.U., WATERTOWN | 4/28/1933 | See Source »

...third that the Alumni assumed the offensive bringing home three runs. Taylor, who had been well in control up to this time, allowed the bases to fill. Then a combination of errors on a grounder to short allowed Donaghy, Chauncey, and Nugent to cross the plate. Then Taylor settled down, Mays was out on a fly to infield, and McHale fanned. The Crimson came back with two runs in their half of the inning as Adams and Ware scored, and in the fourth made another tally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BALL TEAM TAKES ALUMNI INTO CAMP IN 6-4 ENCOUNTER | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

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