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...Beaver Falls, Pa., Sept. 29--Having made an excellent showing against Cornell in the opening game of the season for both elevens, at Ithaca last Saturday, Geneva will begin its second trek to the East tonight to meet Harvard in the Cambridge Stadium, next Saturday...
...playing the new game, "Babbitt" ? The definition of a Babbitt published in TIME, July 26, [MISCELLANY, p. 29] was most vague. Why not be specific, if you set yourselves up as authorities ? ... Is it part of the game to point at a specimen, crying out its name, as in "Beaver...
They played it on the Corso, in the Bois de Boulogne, among the busses of Trafalgar Square-the game of Beaver. One walked with a companion; one saw a bearded man; one shouted "Beaver," scoring a point for every beard. Game score, as in Fives, was 21. The vogue of Beaver passed two years ago, but recently, on Long Island, a similar pastime started-the game of Babbitt. One drives the highroad, keeping a sharp eye out for Babbitts.* When a Babbitt is sighted, one points a finger at him, shouting "Babbitt." Babbitts travel together, and frequently whole games...
After the War he joined Henry Farquharson Kerr's Kerr Steamship Co. as vice president, became president of the Roosevelt Steamship Co. (The two concerns have the same offices at 44 Beaver St., Manhattan.) But the hold of shipping on him was slight. Certainly he found his affairs so well managed for him that he and Theodore Jr. could go to the Himalayas for Ovis poll pelts (TIME, March 8, SCIENCE.) Now, returned and rested, he says: "I am in shipping to stay...
...Ella George, of Beaver Falls, Pa., president of the Pennsylvania W. C. T. U., an ingenuous, grandmotherly person with a quick smile and cheerful voice, readily took the stand and answered the Senator's questions. "Oh, yes," she said brightly, "the ladies of the W. C. T. U. had stumped for Governor Pinchot willingly at $5 per day, paid by him. They had written the voters letters about his splendid Dry record. They had drummed up money at church meetings and by speeches...