Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...improvised so far, it is nevertheless noteworthy that a large majority of last year's veterans have been placed together on the team which has been under the direction of E. T. Putnam '29, experienced pilot of last season. In the backfield are S. L. Batchelder '31, valuable auxiliary back of last year, A. W. Huguley '31, letterman and stellar defenseman, and W. R. Harper '30, two-time letterman and reckoned the best plunging back of the present team. Just how this combination, experienced and tried as it is, is to be bettered without at least a game...
...when Harvard college was founded as a small theological school it was settled a good distance from the Charles river. It was not a purely haphazard chance that caused the college to build the embryonic Yard with its back to the river for the malaria infested swamps were something to be avoided in the days before modern hygienic conditions...
What had happened evidently was that in Denver some person or persons unknown, having knowledge of the confidential code through which bankers transfer money, had written six coded wires, had fraudulently added the six Denver signatures. Banks customarily act upon these coded telegrams without checking back on them. Given a knowledge of the code and a willingness to misuse it, there was no great difficulty in working the $500,000 fraud. Sole precaution on the part of the defrauder was that the money should be collected before the trickery was discovered...
...Hearst advanced $200,000 to finance the Graf Zeppelin's globe-trot. In return, correspondents for his newspapers and his alone (in the U. S.) were carried on the flight. When Commander Dr. Hugo Eckener steamed up New York Harbor last fortnight on an official welcoming tug after getting back to Lakehurst, eager Hearst photographers snapped him and snapped him; eager Hearst editors spread the photographs on flaring Hearst pages in the grand finale of Publisher Hearst's world "scoop" of the flight...
...like any German burgher: "I am in a hurry to get back to my wife and home...