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Word: stubs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stadium. This time the object of the attack was Edward G. Robinson, movie actor, and star of "Five Star Final", "The Hatchet Man", and "Tiger Shark". Mr. Robinson, standing by his car, went unnoticed until an observant boy ran up to him with a pencil and a ticket stub and asked him for his autograph. In an instant a crowd, waving pencils and papers engulfed him, and was only dispersed with the coming of dark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STADIUM CROWD MOBS MOVIE STAR TO OBTAIN AUTOGRAPH | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...campaigning ended without serious mistakes. The G. O. P. had hoped to tag their opponent as a radical on the strength of his western speeches but so far he had said nothing wild or woolly. Democrats who had tried to dissuade him from swinging around the circle lest he stub his toe last week privately admitted that to date their fears were groundless. Their candidate was "getting away with it in fine style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pioneer Goes West (Cont'd) | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

...Helping evolve the mobile stub mooring mast to minimize such risks and to reduce the ground crew from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: L. A. to Pasture | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...times, three times was whisked up by rising strata of warm air before the ground crews could grab the spider lines from rings on two dangling cables. The fourth time the crowd cheered as the crew caught hold, started to tug the Akron's tossing silver nose toward the stub mast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Three Men on a Rope | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...gargantuan orange-peel doors of the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock at Akron slid open one sunny afternoon last week and the biggest dirigible ever built moved slowly out, stern first, pushed by the mobile stub mooring-mast at her bow. For this moment of ideal weather officials of Navy and Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. had waited for days. The low hills which make a natural amphitheatre of Akron's municipal airport were black with automobiles and spectators. The Akron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: First Flight | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

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