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Word: prector (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England's Dean of Skiers is Coach Charley Prector of the Crimson team, who has been coaching for the last two years. In his official capacity he spends usually two weekends with the team, brushing up on their form...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coach Proctor on Olympic Team for Dartmouth in '28 | 1/17/1936 | See Source »

...Last week Col. Prector, 72, lay critically ill of pnemonia in a Cincinnati hospital. †A by-product of soap is glycerine. During Depression, prices of glycerine dropped so low that soap makers let it run down the sewers. An unprecedented demand for anti-freeze mixtures during the winter, a pick-up in the use of industrial explosives and war talk has made the price of crude glycerine from a low of 4? per lb. in 1933 to about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stampede to Soap | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

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