Word: benching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Judge- Stone, summing up the case, characterized the book as the most vicious piece of literature he ever read in his life and the vilest he ever saw in his 25 years on the bench...
...moleskins and a fur-collared coat, Yale's Albie Booth, being saved for Harvard, sat on the bench where everyone could see him. On the field Donald McLennan, second substitute for Booth, after a scoreless first half, cut through tackle and around end to jam through one touchdown and lead the way for another. Eddie Wittmer and ten other hard-working Princetonians found they were up against a better team. Yale 13, Princeton...
...reliable doctor that Myers did not play because he had "damaged severely the acromio-clavicular ligaments of his left shoulder." When Paris of Georgia forward-passed.in the second half for two scores N. Y. U. rooters held up a sign, "We Want Myers." But Myers was not even on the bench. N. Y. U. 27. Georgia...
...Grand Jury promptly certified their behavior to Justice Peyton Gordon of the District of Columbia Supreme Court. Justice Gordon owes his recent elevation to the bench in no small part to the good newspaper treatment he received when, as U. S. District Attorney, he prosecuted some minor ramifications of the oil scandals (TIME, March 12, 1928). No man to let past favors interfere with the course of justice, Judge Gordon found the three newsgatherers in contempt, sentenced them to 45 days in jail, denied them bond. The Times prepared to pay them double salaries during their imprisonment. Its lawyers...
This week N. Y. U. plays Georgia. Last time N. Y. U. played a southern team (West Virginia Wesleyan), David Myers, who is a Negro, sat on the bench "with a cold." When Coach Meehan admitted he had agreed not to play Myers against Georgia, N. Y. U. students promised to boycott the game. Thereupon Meehan announced that Myers would play. Myers said: "If I felt I wasn't wanted in the game I wouldn...