Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grand Army would not be soft-soaped. Rheumy old eyes glowered as the proposition was voted down. Piped one stern-principled New Jersey veteran: "They were WRONG back in 1861. . . .When they admit it, and not until l then, will we join them. . . . Let them fold up their battle flags. . When they put those flags in museums, then we will believe they want reunion...
...Walter Folger Brown, perusing a roseate stock-selling prospectus of the United States Lines, opined that no fostering was needed, withheld its mail contracts. Last week Mr. Brown, finding mail bids of the Mississippi Shipping Co. and other Shipping Board fleet buyers higher than those of competitors, again held back. He begged President Hoover to direct him to reject all pending mail contracts until Congress could decide whether the lagniappe should actually go to Shipping Board buyers, or whether, now that the fleets were sold, the contracts might not be given to lowest bidders as required by law. The President...
Used to the ways of trappers. Mme. Courtois did not expect her husband and sons back from their business until the Spring. But June came, the fishing season started, and still they did not return. Neighboring trappers and lumbermen talked of organizing search parties. But, remembering shock-headed Dave Courtois' experience, his brawn, his ability to quaff tin dippers of "trade whiskey" from a barrel, they waited...
Detour, construction ahead! or--pass at your own risk, soft shoulders; it rests with the Gods just when the tortuous stream of steaming tar that winds its devious way about the yard may come of age and sink back into that desirable state of intractable resistance. The new "Route 208" or the recommended Socony medium of travel between Widener and wherever you intend to go, represents a new era in the development of the historic old yard; a graceful bow to the commercialism of the present day in the form of laundry, pressing and cleaning, delivery wagons of all sizes...
...least. He played center in practically every game last fall and showed himself to be one of the most consistently brilliant performers on what is generally considered the most powerful Harvard line in recent years. The only weak point in his performances was to be found in his snapping back which gradually improved as the season wore on. This fault was quite natural inasmuch as last season was Ticknor's first attempt at snapping back. His previous experience has been in the backfield a position from which he captained his Freshman eleven. It was his outstanding ability at backing...