Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forces in diamond encounter against the Crimson team at 3 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field. This is the second tilt of the annual two-game series, the first of which the Crusader sluggers annexed last Saturday, 10 to 3. The Harvard aggregation should do better this afternoon, back in its own bailiwick, than it did last week on Worcester soil, but the struggle is sure to be keenly contested even if the Harvard pitching staff is able to seem the Holy Cross slugging, and about this there is some doubt...
...that the Editor may feel that he has at least one supporter (humble the he may be), in his stand with his "back against the wall," may I venture a word...
...Conn., June 4--This morning's workout for the two University crews now practicing on the Thames consisted in a row over the upper two miles of the course. They went up separately, but paddled back together, in three stretches...
...Manhattan air men last week reported that a Mid-Continent Air Express was being organized to operate between Chicago and New Orleans. They said that President Harris M. Hanshue of Fokker Aircraft Corp. was back of the project; also Chairman James Talbot of Richfield Oil Co., Western Air Express and Fokker. Supposedly Mid-Continent would tie up with Western and Standard Air Lines...
...little short of astonishing that a man belonging to a profession usually considered to represent the sternest of realism should have fallen for the vagaries of the "right crowd". Perhaps the boys at Technology have not had time to frequent the polished dance halls of Back Bay and so discover that the boss's daughter and his stenographer are sisters under a very thin skin. At any rate this naive belief in the "right kind" of wife as a stepping stone to the happy life hardly does credit to an intellect which has spent many years over the exact sciences...