Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jumping champion of the Navy. After helping to occupy Vera Cruz in 1912, he learned to fly, was assigned to the spectacular Esquadrille Candinana on the Italian front during the World War. He has long been a friend of Commander Byrd, who put him in charge of the Spitzbergen base during the North Pole flight...
...week described the new motor car to be produced by the Ford Motor Co. as having for standard equipment a self-starter, five wire wheels, speedometer, windshield wiper, gasoline gauge, oil gauge, dash light, Houdaille shock absorbers and four-wheel brakes; 34-h.p. engine; gearshift transmission; 104-inch wheel base; selling-price from $450 for the touring model, to $490 for the Fordor sedan and coup...
Editorially the Gazette said: "Behind this base action is hidden a hand which wanted Vojkov's blood to provoke a war and the sentence is a concession to the die-hard lunatics. Let the Poles remember it is dangerous to play with fire...
...names-Brodie, Bresnahan, McGinnity, McGann, McGraw. They lost the game, 5 to 3. But the crowd of some 10,000 was not entirely displeased. The new manager and shortstop* of the Giants, John Joseph McGraw, seemed to be a fighter and a leader who knew the difference between first base and home plate. New Yorkers predicted that he would get the Giants out of the "cellar" (last place) of the National League. He failed to do so in 1902; but he put the Giants in second place in 1903 and made them pennant winners in 1904. Everyone knows the subsequent...
...McGraw later played third base. †His son, Christopher Jr., was graduated from Bucknell University this month...