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Saturday, February 10, 1923
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The Headlines
RUHR STRIKES BLOCK ALL FRENCH EFFORTS; Another Day Passes With No Coal Mined and No Trains Moved in the District. FOOD SHORTAGE APPEARS Sabotage Continues Against Telephone Lines -- Propaganda of Resistance Is Spreading.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Yes! We Have No Bananas
Frank Silver & Irving Cohn
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
On This Day
Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Bertolt Brecht (1898)
- Boris Pasternak (1890)
- Harold Macmillan (1894)
- Walter Brattain (1902)
- Alexandre Millerand (1859)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Bulldozer, 16mm Film & Hearing Aid (Vacuum Tube).
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Time Elapsed
37,736 days ago
(103 years, 141 days)