Word: bench
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tambourine he resolved to win was high place in the medical profession. As a freshman at Stanford, he watched Curtis Dwight begin a law career in Los Angeles ? a career that was to take him to the Superior Court bench. Ray Lyman kept his head down, studied in Germany and England, returned, taught physiology at Stanford ? and became Stanford's presi dent...
...ended, Ray Lyman returned to Stanford and Fate gave the next two spurts to Curtis Dwight. In 1919 he ascended to California's Supreme Bench. In 1922 he became Chief Justice. Then, after the Denby trouble, when President Coolidge was at a loss for a man to put in as Secretary of the Navy, a state-loyal California newshawk sent in the name of Curtis Dwight Wilbur?"Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California." On paper it looked magnificent, and Calvin Coolidge had not then been President long enough to know how magnificent paper can make some things...
...yard line, two Georgia Tech tacklers knocked Riegels across his own goal-line but the referee put the ball six inches ahead of it. On the next play Tech scored a safety, two points, and soon afterwards Roy Riegels ran off the field to the players' bench...
Naturally enough, Judge Ewing's unconventional behavior on the bench not only created one of the biggest stories of the week but aroused fierce debate. Absurd though it may be to contemplate enforcement of birth control, most observers credited the Cleveland judge with having raised, sharply, an issue of paramount importance...
...baseball ten. Mr. Heydler would give every manager the option of naming a tenth man on his team who would bat in place of the pitcher when ever the rotation got to the bottom of the batting order. The pitcher would continue to pitch, always sitting on the bench between innings, until his usefulness on the mound was exhausted...