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Word: roome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appearing with a beebe gun of ancient vintage and formidable appearance, Frederick C. Minkler '39 sent a dozen waitresses scurrying for shelter in the Lowell House dining room last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BELLBOY MARKSMAN GROUNDS BALLOON IN DINING ROOM | 5/24/1938 | See Source »

Minkler shot down a big gas balloon which had been hovering on the ceiling of the dining room despite various efforts to capture it since it mysteriously appeared yesterday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BELLBOY MARKSMAN GROUNDS BALLOON IN DINING ROOM | 5/24/1938 | See Source »

Straus Hall's Common Room will be open for the first time this year, and all Jubilee guests will be welcome there from 7:30 to 10 o'clock on Friday night for light refreshments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen May Get Special Bus Service to Wellesley | 5/24/1938 | See Source »

That DC-4 may find the actual ceiling of air traffic's enormous room was suggested fortnight ago by Arthur E. Raymond, Douglas' vice president in charge of engineering. He pointed out to the Chamber of Commerce in Washington that there are three good reasons why transcontinental transport planes will never have to fly much higher: 1) the higher they fly, the more oxygen and pressure equipment is necessary, which subtracts from potential payload (passengers and freight); 2) the overwhelming majority of U. S. passenger business is in short hauls, for which "substratosphere" flight is useless, since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: DC-4 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Under the glaring lights of Reno's Harold's Club last week a dozen ugly, hybrid* mice blinked beady eyes at the crowd of divorcees, lawyers, barflies crowding into the gambling room. Manager R. I. Smith was trying out a new invention. An attendant hauled a shrinking mouse out of a coop, dropped him on a flat, glass wheel. Frightened, the mouse started to sprint. The wheel spun. When it began to slow down, the mouse sought shelter in one of the 56 glass cages, each marked with a playing card. This time he darted beneath the jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Hybrid Game | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

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