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Word: sets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hunter came out first; Cochet seemed to be nervous as they stood in front of the cup for the camera men. Hunter went through the first set, Cochet took the second, Hunter the third. After the five-minute rest, Cochet came out in a knitted shirt, his eyes looking huge and tired in his little pale face. He spurted five games; Hunter caught him; Cochet took the set and then, speeding up his game to somewhere near its peak, the last one. The scores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Racketeers | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...Belmont Park six races were run for which money prizes aggregated some 5200,000. One of the five was the Futurity for two-year-olds, in which High Strung set a course record of 1:19 for six and three-quarters furlongs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Records: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...pods and all. Other live stock also find them delectable. Humans like the green seeds, but not the pods. Yet the pods contain valuable sugar and proteins. How to make them humanly palatable is a job which the U. S. Department of Agriculture's bureau of chemistry has set for itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Swampscott | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...General Electric laboratory at Schenectady last fortnight people peered at the small 3" x 3" screen of Dr Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson's television receiving set. They were waiting for the performance of the first playlet broadcast by television. It was J. Hartley Manners' The Queen's Messenger. There being only two parts, there were only two actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Television | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...foul murders pointing to a young etcher set benevolent Detective Bourke on the trail of an international forger of banknotes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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