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Word: star (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tuck game throughout. Harvard took a slight lead at the start but lost it soon after when Colestock, the Navy star, went on a scoring orgy and tallied 12 points inside of ten minutes. During this time Harvard scored only five points. The score at the end of the first half was 22 to 17 in favor of Navy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON DEFEATED BY NAVY BASKETBALL TEAM | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Readers of the Chicago Daily News were recently tantalized and vexed by a tale which its star correspondent, Julian F. Haas, cabled from Nicaragua. The story concerned the U. S. lieutenant "who has the reputation of having the largest foot in the Marine Corps. . . . Every shoe or boot that he requires has to be made to order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Lieut. Big Feet | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Jackson '29, who turned in a fine performance against the Indians, will once again defend the Crimson cage, this time against the hard drives of Chase, Clark Hodder '25, another former University captain, and Everett, erstwhile Dartmouth star. The Harvard scoring machine will be given a thorough test by the opposing defense, Fitzgerald and Perry, and by Learned, one of the best goalies in amateur ranks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Team Engages Club Outfit in Rubber Contest | 2/20/1929 | See Source »

Married. Allan A. Ryan Jr., Manhattan broker, grandson of the late great Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan; and Janet Newbold, Washington socialite, daughter of Business Manager Fleming Newbold of the Washington Evening Star; in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 18, 1929 | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...rags and make him an A. M. or a LL. D., the way we did Baker [Tycoon George Fisher Baker built Harvard's Business School in 1924, was given a kudo Ph. D.]. Becoming a Ph. D. is the same kind of business as getting yourself created a movie star, if you get what we mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harkness Lampooned | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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