Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play. After a long exchange of punts, in which A. W. Huguley '31, kicking for Florida, had a decided edge on M. J. Finlayson '32, the Michigan booter, the ball was deep in Michigan territory. On an attempted kick, Finlayson spiraled the ball over his head and it fell back of the goal line, where it was recovered by one of his teammates, giving Florida a safety...
...year; the only man who has given evidence of furnishing him with opposition. Beecher Moore '32, finished third in the fraternity meet on March 26. E. A. Hill 3L, the other defending title-holder, will be up against a harder task if he is to retain the 100-yard back stroke honors. He is facing a field of at least eight men, including Fred Lewis '32, winner of the 50-yard back stroke in the Freshman meet a week ago, Warren Delano '32, who swam third to Lewis, and E. T. Batchelder '30, who was third in the fraternity affair...
Somehow one has always sought comfort in the hope that whatever else may happen in a changing world the Boston Evening Transcript would stand put. Never seriously indicted as a "scare" sheet the old comforter of Back Bay has staked its little all upon the satisfactory handling of the expected. Its news material emerges from the editorial offices with the tough parts removed and furnishes its established clientel a not too stimulating contact with a busy world of affairs...
...places, and the houses on this particular area remained inhabited. These were, in turn, handed down in the family, sold to strangers, or new structures built in their stead. All the dwellings which were here up to last fall with the exception of the Hicks and Bridge houses, dated back some eighty or ninety years. Now as we see truck load after truck load of the precious earth rumbling off, some to the Law School, some to the site of the Dean's House at the Business School, and some to Soldiers Field, we are witnessing a great ending...
...culminated in the organization of the recently formed Petroleum Corp., $100,000,000 oil investment trust (TIME, Feb. 4). Able Elisha Walker, who will become president of Bancamerica and chairman of the executive committee of Bank of America, will doubtless be the active leader of the merged properties. But back of him will stand Mr. Giannini, now approaching his 60th year, and the billion dollar resources of Transamerica Corp., holding company for all Giannini enterprises...