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Word: webbs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Capt. Webb... 1875 21 hr. 45 min. William Burgess......... 1911 22 hr. 35 min. Charles Toth......... 1923 16 hr. 40 min. H. F. Sullivan............ 1923 27hr. 25 min. Enrique Tirabocchi..... 1923 16hr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Channel Swimmers | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

...Ciro's, where Clifton Webb and Mary Hay dance themselves to fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jun. 29, 1925 | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

...Liberals and such noted Laborites as ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden, Sidney Webb, William Adamson, J. H. Thomas, voted with the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Parliament's Week: Feb. 23, 1925 | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...four reined up, dismounted, received from the hands of Major General Robert Lee Bullard a huge silver bowl?the historic International Challenge Cup, filled with "the waters of the Meadow Brook." Lifting it, the four drank in turn to their victory?Captain Devereux Milburn, Thomas Hitchcock Jr., J. Watson Webb, Robert Strawbridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Four Horsemen | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

...college" football is said to have been "founded" by one Gerrit Smith Miller, who organized the Oneida Club, at Boston, in 1862. Rugby football, prototype of the U. S. game, was "founded" by one William Webb Ellis, a Rugby School student, in 1823. Reads a tablet on the playing field at Rugby, England: "This stone commemorates the exploit of William Webb Ellis who, with a fine disregard for the rules of football as played in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the Rugby game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King Football | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

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