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Sunday, February 27, 1927
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The Headlines
HARVARD REPULSES YALE SEXTET, 2 TO 1; Tallies Both Goals in Second Period to Make Clean Sweep of Two-Game Series. BLUE COUNTS NEAR CLOSE Makes Desperate Rally, in Which Noble Scores Team's Only Goal Four Minutes From End.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
My Blue Heaven
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- Constantine the Great (272)
- John Steinbeck (1902)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807)
- Paul Ricœur (1913)
- Marian Anderson (1897)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Electronic TV (Philo Farnsworth), Jukebox (Automatic) & Iron Lung.
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Time Elapsed
36,258 days ago
(99 years, 123 days)