Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Penn was on the inside lane, Yale on the outside, and Columbia in the middle. On the course at the Schuylkill at Philadelphia, with its staggered start and its finish laid at an angle past a bend, the outside lane was much the hardest. But the course did not bother the Yale crew. It was in front when the three boats settled down after the racing start and it stayed in front, fighting off Columbia's sprints, to win by three quarters of a length. Penn was three lengths behind Columbia...
...journalistic nines of the two colleges will meet in their second annual diamond clash. The equipment of the rival teams will probably be more colorful than useful, catchers will catch without masks, base runners will worry little about hit and run or squeeze plays, and few people will probably bother to remember the score. Whatever the outcome, however--whether the game last four or fourteen innings--the occasion will be one of renewed friendships and general festivity on both sides...
...event, what Graham thinks about the Pope doesn't bother the Pope, the Holy church he represents, nor the millions of loyal Catholics...
...author does indeed seem to advocate demagogy, and polygamy; does indeed say his say against the established practice of medicine and law, and the fashion of childlessness. But all so casually that the reader need not take him seriously, is in fact far too engrossed with the tale to bother with the sociology, or the presence of occasional unwarranted melodrama. For Deluge is an excellent good yarn. It is also this month's Book of the Month, chosen by the famed club of that name and purchased by its 73,000 members...
...face of his opponent, a young man named Bert Duryee of Wichita, Kan. Without taking off his cracked and faded straw hat Davis tossed horseshoes at an iron stake driven into the ground 40 feet from where he stood. Duryee was not quite so calm; the crowd seemed to bother him and before he got going Davis had a lead of nearly 20 points which he held to the end of the game, beating Duryee 50 to 30, and so winning a diamond studded medal, $300, and, for the third time in succession, the horseshoe pitching championship of the world...