Word: across
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Edge, already the diplomat: "Charlie, the fact that you will be just across the Channel in London almost persuades me to apply for the Paris...
Pending definite news, Senator Edge was internally atwitter over the prospect of being "just across the Channel, Charlie." A somewhat rotund, full-blooded gentleman of 54, with a history-printer's devil to millionaire-statesman-vaguely reminiscent of the first of U. S. ministers to France (Benjamin Franklin), he might feel, if he got the post, that he had earned it. He has worked up the Republican ladder diligently, from clerk in the New Jersey State Senate, to Governor, to the U. S. Senate. His earnestness and lack of poise while speech-making make him accompany his words with...
...operate the mills, the managers scoured the East Tennessee mountain country for strikebreakers whom they drove to the plants in busses and trucks under armed guards. The strikers, many of them also back-countrymen, attempted to block the highways, break up the convoys. Trees were felled across the road. In one case a "loyal worker" injured three strikers when ordered by Guardsmen to drive his car full tilt through a blockading group. Adjutant General W. C. Boyd in charge of militia at Elizabethton was arrested on a charge of "aiding and abetting an attempt to commit murder," preferred...
...sharp single off the bat of E. H. McGrath '31 sent E. R. Todd '29 across the home plate with the winning run in the eleventh inning of yesterday's baseball game with the Dartmouth nine. There were two out and the rain was falling steadily when the last ditch tally was scored, giving the Crimson a 6 to 5 victory over the powerful Green diamond forces...
...University Seconds trailed at no time in the course of the game. In both the first and third stanzas, they pushed across a brace of runs, and in the fourth they combined three hits with two errors for four more...