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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Y. U. 14, Georgetown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOE FORECAST DEFERS TO ANXIOUS POLITICAL HEADS IN PREDICTION | 11/3/1928 | See Source »

...Athens, Tenn., the spider-finder was one Lee Moses. More venturesome or perhaps more literate than the Gilmer spider, the Athenian spider had written "Smith-8-Y." Spiderman Moses* interpreted this to mean, "Smith, eight years" and placed his bets accordingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Spiders | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...figures play around in the pate of Marion Talley last week as she sped from Buffalo, N. Y., to Quincy, Ill. Fifty (that stood for the number of concerts scheduled),* by $3,000 (the approximate fee) multiply and subtract expenses. . . . The figuring held no terrors for her. She had excelled in arithmetic back home in the Kansas City school-in arithmetic, deportment and singing. Singing had made her a Metropolitan Opera star at 19. Arithmetic broadened into a good business sense which enables her to make her own contracts to her own good advantage. In deportment there has been little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Harvest | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...first was in Burlington, Vt., then Buffalo, N. Y., Ames, Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Harvest | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...Strong of N. Y. U. made four touchdowns against Rutgers which in 1915 beat N. Y. U. 73-0. His team mates made three touchdowns more. 48-0 was as far as they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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