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Word: getting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge: "I don't like this pie. Get me one with crust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Skunked | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...most distant possibility, but nothing short of an eleven picked from all those teams which played in the Stadium this fall clad in Crimson jerseys would seem to satisfy a number of voluble critics. And such a team does not seem very far off unless the newspapers can get professional hockey started by the week before instead of the week after the close of the football season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES? | 12/5/1928 | See Source »

...ballot. Petitions, signed by 20 eligible voters, to add additional names to the ballot may be taken to Claverly 53. The list of nominees will remain open for additional names until 6 o'clock on Monday when the ballots will be closed. As soon as it is possible to get them printed they will be mailed to members of the class of 1930 and must be marked and mailed back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOMINATIONS FOR 1930 CLASS OFFICERS MADE | 12/5/1928 | See Source »

Summa Summarum, though a man may know Shakespeare note by note, and can get a summa for it, why must he be inflicted on Phi Beta Kappa--the organization is notoriously weak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Other Point of View | 12/5/1928 | See Source »

Motor Manufacture. The Wrights in 1903 could get no one to make them a suitable flying motor; they invented one themselves. It was vertical and water-cooled. But the Wright Aeronautical Corp., which bought their airplane patents now makes radial air-cooled (whirlwind and cyclone) motors, but no planes. Nearly 3,000 Wright whirlwinds will have been made & sold this year. Pratt & Whitney (Wasp & Hornet radial motors) is the next largest motor maker, with 1,200 output this year. Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. makes V-type motors for its own planes; Fairchild Aviation Corp. is almost ready to market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: 25 Years | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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