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Word: star (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Wenner was the star performer in the 1930 team, while Owen was easily the outstanding man for Worcester...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN BASKETBALL TEAM DEFEATS WORCESTER 43-38 | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

...unheralded Georgetown freshman came from behind to defeat A.H. Miller '27, star University sprinter, in the 60 yard dash at the games of the New York Athletic Club in Madison Square Garden last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MILLER FOLLOWS LINDMUTH NEW YORK A.C. SPRINTS | 2/15/1927 | See Source »

...exchange value of the French franc. The Colorado River runs across the front pages of our newspapers, and the Rhine across an inside page. The January sales of our big department stores are of more interest to our people than a sale of French bonds. A new movie star attracts more attention than a French victory or defeat in the Libyan or Sahara Desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In Los Angeles | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...brother, Felix M. Warburg, who married Frieda Schiff, has remained a partner since 1897. His forte is the philosophy of money?economics. Otto Hermann Kahn, who became a partner in 1897, after his marriage to Addie Wolff, is the star salesman of the firm, the "front window." Jerome J. Hanauer might be called the mathematical genius. Few minds can match his when it is applied to railroad financing. He?a partner since 1912, and the last to be admitted?is the only one not a son-in-law or a son of earlier partners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pine and William Sts. | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...during his second year with Metropolitan he made his knowledge pay. He wrote up policies worth more than $1,000,000 and has exceeded that sum yearly since. Last week Metropolitan bookkeepers told him that during 1926 his policies totaled $34,075,950. He was the company's star salesman, breveted smart son of a smart father. He is, of course, a member of Metropolitan's famed Million Dollar Club, which this year has 60 members, including Elmer Q. Oliphant, onetime famed football halfback at Purdue and at West Point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Smart Son | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

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