Word: averred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...argument but that the game has changed since "Home Run" Baker mad? his name by knocking 12 homeruns during the season of 1913. "Babe" Ruth knocked 60 in 1927. Young Outfielder Klein had hit 29 this season up to last weekend. In the old days, the good aver age hitter batted about 25% perfect (.250 in the tabulations). Today an average of .285 is only fair. About 116 batters in the two Big Leagues have surpassed .300 this year, with several of them up around .400.* A good average score used to be 4 runs to 3. A few weeks...
...gave the first heave. He declared Jolter Barnes's theological speech an unwarranted intrusion on a scientific body. "There is no conflict between science and religion. Some of the greatest men on science have been very religious." Dr. Joseph Mayer, head of the Tufts College sociology department, hastened to aver: "I disagree most emphatically with Mr. Barnes...
Line Coach Dunne sent his forwards through a stiff blocking and interfering drill, the A and B lines opposing each other. The Crimson forward wall, aver- aging over 190 pounds from tackle to tackle, has not received a severe test so far this season and its showing Saturday will be important, not only as far as the result of the game with the West Pointers is concerned, but also as it may affect the outcome of the entire fall campaign...
...There used to be a preparatory school at Notre Dame where, presumably, boys were taught Notre Dame football. This school was discontinued in 1920. Notre Dame authorities aver that none of Bockne's stars ? Gipp, Miller, Layden, Stuhldreher, Crowley, Flanagan, etc. ? went to that school...
THIS year as well as last saw literary representations of nineteenth century decades at a rate almost epidemic. Don Marquis wrote of the adventurous business enterprises of the seventies. "The Mauve Decade" summed up, falsely, some aver, the social life of the nineties, and Mark Sullivan with the "Turn of the Century" said his say on the politics and public fashions of those days. The present book has a rather more restricted field than any of these, and yet is of them, for it treats of the days when New England was admittedly the cultural balance wheel of the nation...