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Word: recording (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Tom Bolles and his shipload of able seamen will be out to set a record for successive victories over the Blue when the Harvard Varsity shell matches strokes with Yale tomorrow on the Thames River in New London, in the 88th meeting between the two colleges...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, | Title: CRIMSON NAVY AIMS AT FOURTH STRAIGHT VICTORY OVER UNDERFEATED ELI TOMORROW | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

...possibility that the Bollesmen can sink the Elis and thus set a precedent is great, with an experienced, smoothly working eight pulling the Crimson-tipped oars this spring. The paper odds that quote Yale a slight favorite on the strength of its spotless record should prove a help to the Crimson, for the Elis do not deserve their top-dog rating, and the psychological effect on Harvard should be an asset...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, | Title: CRIMSON NAVY AIMS AT FOURTH STRAIGHT VICTORY OVER UNDERFEATED ELI TOMORROW | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

...York Herald Tribune pounced on another Chase definition: "Physical investment-stuff you can kick with your foot: financial investment-stuff you can crumple in your hand," and quoted from the record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Propaganda Glossary | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Last week the Wurlitzers, piano makers for 30 years, announced a 129% sales increase over the first five months of 1938, an all time record since neat German-born Rudolph Wurlitzer founded the company in 1856. Meanwhile, piano makers as a whole&#hardest-hit U. S. music industrialists during Depression-recorded a 30.5% sales increase over last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Swing & Upswing | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

When small, smiling Francisco ("Pancho") Sarabia set his racing plane down fast but safely at Floyd Bennett Field three weeks ago, his friends, relatives and admirers waiting there cheered him wildly. They were glad because their Pancho had set a new non-stop record for the Mexico City-New York City flight. And they were glad for another reason. Pancho's five-year-old plane had a bad history of forced landings and unfinished races, was supposed to be jinxed. Pancho had flouted the jinx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: I Shiver | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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