Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Babbitts blew horns. Whistles split ears. Skyrockets hissed. Thud-bombs thudded. And bevies of Joliettes screamed for joy? all because the Joliet high school band had won for the third time, and obtained final possession of the Class A cup offered by the National Bureau for the Advancement of Music...
Died. Thomas Henry ("Old Tom") Tibbles, 87, famed Civil War fighter, circuit rider and onetime (1904) candidate for the vice presidency of the U. S.; at Omaha, Neb. Hanged before he was 16 by members of Raider Quantrill's band, he was cut down by friends, lived to fight with John Brown, to edit the Omaha World-Herald, to marry three wives, one of them Princess Bright Eyes, original of Longfellow's Minnehaha...
...varsity crew weighs 1480 pounds. It is the beefiest crew that has been put together by any college for a long time. Last week in Philadelphia the Harvard cheering section sitting in a temporary grandstand built on the edge of the Schuylkill River yelled themselves hoarse and the student band boomed and whooped as that beefy crew pulled past the judges' barge three quarters of a length ahead of Penn, with the Navy third. "Beat Yale at New London and then try for the Olympics!" cried Harvard old grads...
...cloth expensive. In Ireland Inventor B. M. Glover of Bruntcliffe, near Leeds, has devised a machine which turns out 2,800 yards of material a week instead of the 150-yard output of the common loom. The fibres are passed through a carding machine, emerging as a broad loose band; then sewn crosswise by rows of tiny stitches; the crosswise direction giving great strength to the finished cloth. An inch of blanket cloth will be traversed by 16 to 20 rows of stitching, each stitch about one-fourteenth of an inch long. Weaving ("under and over") has been dispensed with...
Today is to be one of sports and sight-seeing excursions for the assembled alumni, with the University Band supplying music throughout the day. Trips through the historical sections of Philadelphia, and other points of interest, will be followed this afternoon by a baseball game between the University and Pennsylvania teams, and the crew races on the Schuylkill between Harvard, Pennsylvania and the Navy...