Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...infield D. F. Davis '30, K. J. Des Roches '31, T. G. O'Neill '30, and H. L. Huxtable '30 form a combination that, except for a little weakness at the plate, almost comes up to the first team infield. K. W. Crotty '30, G. A. Donaldson '31 and C. P. Atherton ocC form the outfield which Coach Kelleher expects to use in coming games...
...Passersby in the Kingsway stopped and stared when these two arrived at Magnet House. There was little of the American in Mr. Swope's appearance. He has rimless eyeglasses. . . . Mr. Chadbourne had to bend almost double...
Others. Graham-Paige almost doubled its first quarter 1928 output, producing more than 25,000 Graham-Paiges during first three months of 1929. Nash beat March, 1928 by 44%, Franklin by 140% (1,566 units). March saw the millionth Oakland roll down the runway. Marmon had a record-breaking March, featured by its new Roosevelt (8 cylinders, less than $1,000). President A. R. Erskine of Studebaker told stockholders of $4,500,000 earnings, in best first quarter for five years. Continental Motors Corp. (engines) showed sales increases, exclusive of sales to Ford, of 18% over first quarter...
...news and editorial departments. It owns, jointly with a power and newsprint company, an entire town and miles of timber in the wilds of Canada. Last year it spent nearly a million in the U. S. Postoffice Department, half a million on telegraph and cable tolls, almost as much on welfare work among its employes...
Lahm Prize. Almost forgotten in the U. S. is Frank S. Lahm, 83, first U. S. citizen to take up ballooning as a sport, first person to give a full account of what Wilbur and Orville Wright accomplished, great protagonist of the Wrights in France. But in France where the elder Lahm has lived in retirement since the War, he is less a recollection. Each year he gives 30,000 francs ($1,175) for the most interesting accomplishment in aviation. Last week he gave the money to Juan de la Cierva, who invented the autogiro (flying machine with vanes whirling...