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Word: york (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from a place called Philadelphia hastened her untimely end. The remains will lie in state today at the park, weather permitting, and the funeral will probably be later. She leaves two sisters, Faith and Charity, neither of whom was present yesterday. Philadelphia papers please copy. Last week the New York Herald Tribune published the following headline: ASSOCIATION MAKES INDOOR POLO BALL OF SOFT RUBBER OFFICIAL. By that it meant that the Indoor Polo Association met and decided that instead of an inflated, small-size basketball, indoor polo players will hereafter play with a new ball, 4½ in. thick like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport Notes, Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...Nebraska v. Kansas at Lincoln; Northwestern v. Illinois at Evanston; Wisconsin v. Purdue at Madison. West: Southern California v. California at Los Angeles; Redlands v. Pomona at Redlands; Stanford v. California Tech at Palo Alto. FOOTBALL (Nov. 9) East: Brown v. Dartmouth at Providence; Columbia v. Colgate at New York; N. Y. U. v. Georgia at New York; Pennsylvania v. Penn State at Philadelphia; Princeton v. Lehigh at Princeton; Navy v. Georgetown at Annapolis; Wesleyan v. Williams at Middletown; Yale v. Maryland at New Haven. South: Alabama v. Kentucky at Montgomery; South Carolina v. North Carolina at Columbia; Tulane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Such last month was the shrewd method employed by one Cornelius J. Donovan, 54, confirmed criminal, to effect a swindle in Manhattan which even the police praised for its ingenuity. The great man whose name, town house and butler played unwitting parts in the crime was New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The jewelmart was Fifth Avenue's fashionable Black, Starr & Frost. The salesman who gave up his card to the persuasive purchaser was one Thomas Patterson. The rings were two, valued at $800 and $750, containing diamonds set in platinum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shrewd | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...less shrewd were New York detectives who last week arrested Donovan, starving, in a cheap Manhattan hotel; recovered the pawn tickets for the rings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shrewd | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...make them feel like "just one big family." Master of ceremonies was Everett Colby, '97, Manhattan lawyer. He introduced one of whom all there had heard, his classmate Alumnus John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Alumnus Colby said that Alumnus Rockefeller "runs a gas station somewhere down near New York" and assured the gathered company that "John would be pleased to meet any member of the alumni who needs a million dollars. . . . All you have to do is just go up and slap him on the back and tell him just what you want." In an expansive mood, Alumnus Rockefeller accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brown Men | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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