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Word: overhead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twilight the machine guns on the walls were quiet, still waiting. A thousand people and a regiment of militia were at the gates. An airplane droned overhead. Death came for the rioters across the yard, up into the cell block, past the barricades which they had piled up with mattresses, chairs, beds at corners where they could shoot down a corridor two ways and back up to a stairway. Troopers told a convict named Johnson, who was helping them, to pull a mattress off a barricade. A bullet stopped Johnson when he took his first step. A bullet stopped Captain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Again, Auburn | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Team expenses were reduced and the overhead of permanent improvements, grounds, and buildings was $70,000 less than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.A.A. INCOME FOR PAST YEAR EXCEEDS PREVIOUS SEASON OVER $200,000 | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

...Yale scheme of offense is based on powerful line play pure and simple. There is very little attempt at deception and the overhead department is the customary Eli flop. But the line play is plenty good enough to make the straight running attack dangerous any where and any time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Marsters runs. Poor Al only shook himself loose on about three occasions all afternoon. But this form of defense proved to be pretty poor protection against a careful forward passing attack as put on by Marsters and company in the third period. If Harvard can continue to improve overhead it certainly should have enough opportunity to capitalize on its skill. TIME...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Student Council retains $700 for its own overhead and running expenses, and as $750 is being given to the Harvard Band for the Michigan trip, $2550 remains for distribution among benevolent institutions. It has already been decided to give $1,000 to the Red Cross and $500 to the Salvation Army, he bequests to the Cambridge Boy Scouts and the Committee on Friendly Relations among. Foreign Students awaiting the consultation of the Budget Committee with the newly-formed P. B. H. advisory group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P.B.H. COMMITTEE TO ADVISE ON BUDGET | 10/9/1929 | See Source »

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