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Thursday, June 30, 1927
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The Headlines
COLUMBIA CREW WINS 4-MILE HUDSON RACE AS 100,000 LOOK ON; Leads Washington by Three-Quarters of a Length, With California Third in Classic. FIRST VICTORY SINCE 1914 Navy Fourth, Cornell Fifth and Syracuse Sixth -- Penn Last as Log Cuts Hole in Shell. Columbia Varsity Wins Classic on Hudson, With Washington in Second Place
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
- Czesław Miłosz (1911)
- Walter Ulbricht (1893)
- Charles VIII of France (1470)
- Paul Berg (1926)
- Susan Hayward (1917)
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
36,135 days ago
(99 years, 0 days)