Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taking train back to Washington: "I have no criticism to make of the American Press. I admire its independence and courage." ¶ Struggling into his winter overcoat, President Hoover last week went out and inaugurated Washington's baseball season at Griffith Stadium. Calmly he watched the Philadelphia Athletics beat the Washington Senators 13 to 4. With him and Mrs. Hoover were four members of the Cabinet: Secretaries Mellon, Good, Hyde, Davis...
...Bauer, a graduate student in the engineering school, next showed to the reporter a pulse-rate recorder which he has devised for use in the Business School Fatigue Laboratories and in similar institutions. The small amount of current produced by each beat of the heart is picked up by two electrodes fastened to the patient's chest. The electric impulse is transmitted to an amplifier, which enables a buzzer or a tape recorder to be used in connection with the apparatus...
...three o'clock in the afternoon, of Friday, April 19, began the greatest endurance test since Dempsey beat Carpentiers. Two strong and husky entrants from that respected school across the Common, were to sit in opposite windows of a music store on Holyoke St., and play victoria records continuously until one or the other should fall asleep or faint of fatigue. To the winner the proprietor of the shop promised to award a handsome prize of twenty-five dollars, and to the loser a generous prize of ten dollars...
...contestants. One looked huskier, but the other had that wiry physique which can go through many a crisis. The contest was predicted to last three days and fifteen hours, meals being supplied by a neighboring restaurant, also patronized by Harvard undergraduates: There were five policemen added to the beat, on account of various threats of brickbats through a window and caffein tablets in the soup of the man who seemed to be carrying his class to victory. There is a room in Still-man infirmary and two trained nurses held in readiness for the first to succumb...
...race rowed yesterday was called by Coach E.J. Brown '96 on account of the unsatisfactory time shown by both crews in covering the mile and three-quarter distance on Saturday. Watts held the beat four or five point higher throughout the race yesterday than he did three days ago, but Swaim's crew were prepared for a close contest, and made a much better showing. The crews rowed down the course at a 32 stroke-per-minute clip, little hindered by a light head wind, which had less effect than did the cross chop from several launches which had passed...