Word: tubers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comical elements connected with the prize which the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives at Denver received last fortnight from the American Association for the Advancement of Science-"for the most important contribution to the study of tuberculosis during the last 10 years." One was a potato, an ordinary Irish tuber; the other the petiteness of the honorarium...
...Senior singles race, which was an open event, Crooks took first place with R. B. Tuber '30 second. This race was also over the mile course in the Charles River Basin...
...Baraboo I let fly a potato at a bibulous shoe merchant just as he was turning into a saloon far down the alley, hands crossed behind back; and had he but shut the outer hand opportunely, he would have found himself in unexpected possession of a perfectly good tuber. It is needless to observe that, during the rest of my boyhood, I had register absent whenever that surprised worthy appeared in the offing. O. D. BRANDENBURG...