Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...YORK CITY, April 3.--Two thousand undergraduates of Columbia University greeted Coach P. D. Haughton at a football rally here this afternoon. A large squad of candidates reported at Baker Field for the first day of spring training. With the coming of Coach Haughton undergraduate confidence in a successful season has risen and the prospects of a winning team are considered good...
...bare baker's dozen of words, eked out by ample illustrative gesture, should keep a man alive. But, in cold weather his conversation might become dull, and his writing would always be extremely telegraphic. He picks up an adjective here and a verb there until he can talk rather fluently of the weather and politics. Indeed, such writers as Hobbes, Swift and Defoe won success on very few words...
...Harvard prize play by Mr. Philip Barry, the Belmont Theatre of New York has for the second time offered a prize of $500 and production within six months, for the best play submitted in a competition open to past or present members of Professor G. P. Baker's courses in dramatic composition at the University and Radcliffe...
...three judges will be Mr. R. G. Herndon, the New York producer, or a representative named by him; Mr. Robert C. Benchley '12, dramatic editor of "Life"; and Professor Baker or his representative. The prize will go to the "prose dramatic composition of at least three acts" adjudged by this committee "to be the best suited for professional production." Plays must be submitted to Professor Baker by June...
...George R. Agassiz, Mrs. George P. Baker, Mrs. Henry S. Grew, Mrs. B. Nason Hamlin, Mrs. Louis K. Liggett, Mrs. Charles Mason, Mrs. John B. Paine, Mrs. Benjamin F. Pitman, Mrs. John Reed Post, Miss Evelyn Sears, Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer, Mrs. Edwin S. Webster, Mrs. A. Winsor Weld...