Word: 26th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week when Elmer Layden's troops (three complete teams) trotted into The Bronx's Yankee Stadium for their 26th annual skirmish with Army, 78,000 spellbound spectators watched them. Most of them had never seen either West Point or South Bend, but this was their "Homecoming Game." Notre Dame rooters were proud of their team's record. In five games so far this season it had defeated Purdue, Georgia Tech, Southern Methodist, Navy, Carnegie Tech-none of them pushovers. But to Army rooters that record was just the luck of the Irish: a field goal...
...January 26th, 1896, I entered your institution. I am ashamed to say that for five years I had drunk one quart of whiskey a day. On January 28th, 1896, I took my last drink." So runs a typical testimonial to the once-famous Keeley Institute in the cornbelt town of Dwight, Ill., long a Mecca for drunkards who wanted to get out of John Barleycorn's clutches...
Martin ran against Ham Fish in the 26th Congressional district of New York on the Democratic and Labor ticket, losing in the face of the Dewey landslide, but finishing well ahead of his ticket. A representative of the younger element in politics. Martin graduated from the University of California in 1934, where he was president of the college comic magazine. He is a brother-in-law of John S. Stillman, president...
...until then, he made sure that he would choose his successor on the bench. Then from his glassed enclosure on Third Street, he watched Jay Cooke, Philadelphia's G. O. P. chairman, stride majestically along in the inaugural parade, saw pass the proud banner from Philadelphia's 26th Ward: "Home Ward of Late U. S. Senator WILLIAM S. VARE Honoring His True Friend GOV. ARTHUR H. JAMES...
Very auspicious circumstances surrounded the opening of the annual Harvard-Yale R.O.T.C. camp at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, on June 26th, for its fame had even penetrated to the golden shores of California, and the University of Santa Clara honored the camp with one of its sons...