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Word: waterer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...model, 1/32 the size of intended seadromes, consists essentially of a rectangular platform. To its underside are attached hollow steel columns, each ending in a circular disk. Air in the cylinders was sufficient to keep the device floating on the Choptank and the platform several feet above the water. Speedboats dashed around the model. Their waves did not touch the platform nor did they rock it. The heavy horizontal disks at the lower ends of the hollow columns, below the depths to which the wave actions reached, counterbalanced all surface disturbances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Seadrome | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...Rogers' statement that scholastic grades in the United States are the mark of the Dunce cap is exaggerated. Many difficulties arise in marking, but some sort of measurement of achievement is an absolute necessity, and the thing to do is not to throw out the baby with the water you wash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Holmes Refutes Rogers' Statement That Scholastic Grades are the Mark of the Dunce Cap as Exaggeration | 10/22/1929 | See Source »

...told you it would not be a surprise"-to reporters asking what birthday present she would give her father. The "surprise" was triple: 1) a bowl of water with four toy boats, ticketed For naval parity; 2) a toy terrier-I am Scottie too; 3) a slate-Let us reckon up our debits and credits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ishbel | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard University soccer team won its third successive game Saturday afternoon by defeating Bridge-water Normal School 7 goals to 2 on the field behind the Business School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCCER TEAM CAPTURES THIRD STRAIGHT, 7 TO 2 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Broadbent '32 and D. M. Frame '32 were the individual stars of the contest, the former scoring three, and the latter two of the victors' points. Cullen was stellar light for Bridge-water, making one of his team's two tallies. The other was scored on a mis-kick by a Harvard player...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCCER TEAM CAPTURES THIRD STRAIGHT, 7 TO 2 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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