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Word: pumpings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dapper, gay, demonstrative Jean Borotra has made himself a millionaire in the gasoline pump business while performing in Davis Cup matches and international tournaments since 1923. Last week he dictated a letter to his secretary while riding in a taxicab to play his final match. Bell, who has beaten him once before, served well but so did Borotra, who threw two points in the third set, loafed in the fourth, broke through Bell's serve once in the fifth, then ended the match with a love game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indoor Tennis | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...rated as authorities, exploit the Reader's Guide, perhaps take a trip to see with his own eyes and hear with his own ears, and, if he runs to the professor in the end, it will not be to sit out a recitation or lecture, it will be to pump him, principally to check up on material previously gathered or to obtain a shrewder, more matured and balanced interpretation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rollins System of Education Places the Initiative of Study in Hands of Student and Abolishes All Lectures | 1/6/1931 | See Source »

...eight. The rear axle gear ratio has been lowered from 4.9-to-1 to 4.6-to-1 to give greater ground speed with less engine speed. A "slender profile" radiator has been added. Prices not yet announced. Plymouth. New body styles with a wide-shell radiator, motors with fuel pumps, greater speed and acceleration. Cost: $535 up. Packard in its line of eights showed small change in body design but a new fuel pump which provides a steady feed and prevents boiling of the gasoline. All new Packards have wider and longer springs, automatic chassis lubrication. For the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Crucial Motors | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Richard George Gottlob Moldenke, 66, consulting metallurgist to great corporations (Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp., Bethlehem Steel Corp., U. S. Pipe & Foundry Co., et al), onetime secretary & treasurer of the American Foundrymen's Association; after an operation; in Plainfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 1, 1930 | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

Other skeptical minds asked whether the auxiliary power which is needed to pump such large amounts of water will not necessarily have to be almost as great as the final power generated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sea Power | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

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