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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jubilee of the class of 1927 in 1924, red, yellow, and green lanterns, music, laughter, and one of the largest crowds of merry-makers on record detracted from the effectiveness of the winning Smith Halls chorus. In 1925 the singers attracted even less interest, and the class of 1929 saw them fade from the picture at the same time the Memorial Scholarship award was discontinued. A new era dawned for the Jubilee. It became a dance, no more

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVOLUTION OF JUBILEE SHOWS CULTURAL DECLINE FROM TEA PARTY TO RIOT OF JAZZ | 3/28/1928 | See Source »

...adequately to fill the berth left vacant by the departure of David Worcester '28. The ground covered by Worcester in left field was so great in extent that no flies were ever found in his territory. Coach F. G. Mitchell of the University nine said of Worcester, "I never saw a fielder who cast so big a shadow in the outfield." Stout's performances in practice have been encouraging...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princetonian Invites Harvard Journalists to Settle Diamond Rivalry-Crimson Weakened for Meeting in May | 3/27/1928 | See Source »

President Edsel B. Ford of the Ford Motor Co. designed a taxicab, putting on wire wheels, a clock, four doors & an Ustco taximeter; called the whole, logically enough, a "Luxford." Hackmen saw it in Manhattan, ordered 300 the first week, without knowing the price or the delivery date. The Taxi Weekly, house organ of the cab profession, describes the Luxford thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ford Hacks | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...They saw Dolores Costello as the pure dancing girl asleep at midnight. Entered the villain demanding the stolen money. With hand to throat, she vows innocence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...Charles Augustus Lindbergh recently called on Postmaster General Harry Stewart New. He saw a bust of himself standing on the mantlepiece, looked at it with a pained expression, said: "Don't like it. Makes me look like a high school debater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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