Word: awaye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...behind and during the struggle Floyd Kroh . . . rushed from the bench and rescued the ball, returning it to Evers. O'Day watched the mix-up and after seeing Evers with the ball standing on second walked off the diamond?reserving his decision on Merkle's out until he was away from the crowd. . . . This is just another version, but it is the way Toe Tinker remembers it. S. J. DAVIS...
...reading which is pathetically inadequate. A welcome exception to such instances has arisen in Greek B. A section faced with the prospect of tackling a new poet at practically each reading appealed in perplexity to its instructor to give some introduction of the strange authors and to explain away some of the difficulties of unlearned dialects. He responded by holding classes regularly during the Reading Period, and was met by the fullest attendance of the year. From bewilderment at dull dialects and a background not understood, his section passed to enjoyment of almost living poetry. For his sacrifice of time...
...that since has been wiped out to make room for a dam, Mr. Steffan has progressed far from his high school days in which he originated, as a class motto, the aphorism ''Impossible is Un-American." He would perhaps now be more inclined to remark that leading away from aces is uncivilized, inasmuch as he, a member of the Knickerbocker Whist Club, ranks high among bankers who are also bridgers. As an employe of Fuller & Smith Co., Cleveland advertising agency, Mr. Steffan played many a rubber in Harry Dwight Smith's pleasant, photograph-adorned office, wrote also...
...gregariously about the halls of their undergraduate years. Several seemed perturbed, some even seemed alarmed last week. What disturbed them was a rumor that their college endowment-77 millions, or eight millions less than Harvard's (greatest U. S. endowment)-might fall into political hands and be spirited away...
Last week, with the well-equipped Kwangsi armies only 25 miles away, the wily aristocratic Governor of Kwantung, General Chen Ming-chu, sent out a messenger to the Kwangsi rebels. Would the honorable enemy cease its advance on defenseless Canton in return for a sub stantial cash award? The practical-minded Kwangsi generals thought they would, but considering their favorable tactical position, the ransom must be a heavy...