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Word: star (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young lady who, as she makes her first graceful debut down the sliding board, fails to catch the public fancy, and is compelled to sit ignored and unmolested while the balls strike right and left around help. Picture also the situation of her who attracts the admiration of a star pitcher, and must spend her days and nights in sliding down and climbing up again in answer to his call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFTER THE BALL | 5/4/1927 | See Source »

...making every possible effort to assemble as excellent a field as possible to push Wide to a record. Ritola was invited to meet Wide, but the noted Finnish star refused to race the Swedish runner at any distance less than three miles. Theobald, a distance man who achieved an excellent reputation in his races for Columbia last year, is another star under consideration. It is reported that Cox, a sophomore at Penn State whose brilliant record during the past few years has gained him a ranking as one of the country's leading runners at distances over one mile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WIDE TO ASSAULT WORLD'S RECORD | 5/3/1927 | See Source »

Please note inclosed editorial from the Star & Herald, Panama, R. P. which ties onto your comment (TIME, March 21, p. 13) regarding the Panama Canal Zone as "one of the chief headquarters" of the international traffic in "white slaves." Control of this traffic at the Canal Zone comes under the Quarantine Officers who are just as diligent against "white slavers" as they are against yellow fever and bubonic plague, and the records at Cristobal show that last year (I quote from a note from the Quarantine Officer, Dr. C. A. Hearne) there were deported "26 modistes or modistas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

Donaghy and Burns Star...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON NINES DOWN TWO TEAMS IN EASY TILTS | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

Helpless in the early innings before the hurling of Foster Sanford, star Pennsylvania moundsman, the University nine rallied too late to overcome the big lead of the Philadelphians and were toppled by an 11 to 7 score on Soldiers Field yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BARRAGE FROM RED AND BLUE HITTERS LAYS CRIMSON LOW | 4/30/1927 | See Source »

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