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Word: switches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both went down stream in the morning and in the afternoon, taking things rather easy but rowing a steady low stroke in their two seven-mile paddles. Coach White-side seemed pleased with the first day's work. He made no changes in the University seating but made one switch in the Jayvee lineup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAD WEATHER FAILS TO STOP CREWS IN DOUBLE WORKOUT | 6/2/1931 | See Source »

...Electric Co.; of injuries caused by a fall last April (TIME, April 20) ; in Vanhornesville, N. Y. The First Lady of Vanhornesville, Mrs. Young was whimsical, keenminded, to her neighbors "a bit of a character." When Mr. Young had electric lights installed in the town he placed the main switch in his mother's house and for many years the townspeople went to bed when Mrs. Young decided to turn off their lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 1, 1931 | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...Last week the crew of a switch engine in Kansas City stated they had seen the plane brush a grain elevator with its wingtip soon after the takeoff. They said that three days later they found a dent on the fire escape of the elevator, about where the wing was supposed to have struck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Fokker Fuss | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...oldtime Ford crank. But it is the cabin interior that Designer Stout has ingeniously arranged to make the automobile driver feel instantly at home. The dashboard almost exactly duplicates that of the oldtime Model T Ford car. The pilot sits at the wheel, flips a conventional Ford motor switch on the instrument board, presses his heel on an ordinary Ford starter button, pulls out a Ford choke rod, shifts his feet to-instead of a rudder bar-a set of pedals like the old Ford transmission pedals, yanks with his left hand a Ford brake lever that locks both wheels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Something Informal | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

Adolph Walter Samborski '26 has been appointed to the position of Secretary for House Athletics according to an announcement made yesterday by William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics. Samborski is at present in charge of all intramural sports and will merely switch his duties to take care of House athletics when the House Plan is in full swing next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abolition of Class, Fraternity, and 150-Pound Sports Recommended | 4/7/1931 | See Source »

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