Word: berwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whips (whippers-in who are permitted to wear green coats in the field). Some packs are privately owned, like Mrs. William du Pont Jr.'s Foxcatcher Beagles (a misnomer,* because a beagle could never catch a fox). Others are subscription packs, like the Treweryn Beagles of Berwyn, Pa. and the Buckram Beagles of Brookville, Long Island, which anyone with sturdy legs and a presentable papa may join...
...peace, an office which Chicago discontinued in 1905, it puzzled the county clerk's assistants until reporters crossed the street to find behind the window, complacently waiting for business, David R. Mandell, this year elected justice of the peace in the proletarian Cook County suburb of Berwyn. A lawyer by profession, plump, 35-year-old Justice of the Peace Mandell announced that he had married only 41 couples in Berwyn in six months, saw no obstacle to making use of his administrative (but not judicial) authority elsewhere in the county. A look in the statute books corroborated his belief...
...Worcester Academy Worcester Gordon, Melvin J. 17 145 5.11 Rivers School Brookline Harder, George H. Jr. 19 170 5.11 St. Mark's Stockbridge Hartstone, Leon C. 17 155 5.8 Brookline High Brookline Helman, Clifton F. 18 160 5.11 Boston Latin Brookline Hires, William L. 19 170 6. Montgomery Berwyn, Pa. Hornblower, Ralph Jr. 18 160 5.10 Milton Academy Boston Hulse, Stacy B. 17 160 5.9 Belmont Hill York, Penn. James, Robert A. 17 175 5.10 H'rv'rd Sch'l f'r B'ys Chicago, Ill. Keyes, Frederick A. 17 160 6. Boston Latin Boston Kurtz, Paul...
...agencies established by the New Deal since 1933, Resettlement Administration, headed by Rexford Guy Tugwell, was possibly the most spectacular. Of all R. A.'s grandiose ventures, most spectacular was Greenbelt, irreverently known as "Tugwelltown," a model suburban town seven miles outside of Washington at Berwyn...
...Walter Beaver, Berwyn, Pa. electrician: the 32nd annual American clay target championship at singles; with 198 birds out of a possible 200. to 197 for Tracy Lewis of New York; on an overcast afternoon in an east wind that made the targets dip and soar: at Pelham Manor, N. Y. ¶ The New York Giants. 4-to-1: a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, in which famed left-handed Pitcher Carl Hubbell tied the modern major-league record of 20 consecutive League victories established by left-handed Giant Pitcher Rube Marquard in 1911 and 1912; in New York...