Word: bulldog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once there was a Tribune in Chicago. Sturdy bulldog of newspapers, with bandy legs and a coarse voice, it glared at rivals, referred to itself as "the World's Greatest Newspaper." Robert R. McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson were its keepers, co-editors and publishers...
...Tribune piled up more profits than ever in its highly prosperous career. Captain Patterson, taking a hint from Lord Northcliffe ("New York's simply begging for a picture newspaper"), decided that the bulldog needed a tail. He started the New York Daily News, gum-chewer's sheetlet, which began to wag at a great rate. In three years its circulation was 400,000. "When it reaches a million," said Mr. Patterson, "I shall go to New York for good...
...Smith of Yale; after he had led the entire field almost to the half-way mark. It was not until they reached the Watertown bridge that the three Crimson runners passed the Eli leader. Smith's time was 28 minutes 53 seconds, or just 23 seconds behind Haggerty. The Bulldog captain's poor showing was undoubtedly due to an early season injury, which has kept him out of several meets this year...
...organization in the beginning of play against Yale allowed the Elis to pile up five goals in the first chukker, and though the excellent defense work of Captain R. A. Pinkerton '27 kept further tallies down to a considerable degree, the Crimson players were unable to overcome the Bulldog's heavy lead, losing...
Cutler is not the only Yale athlete who will face his father's alma mater when the Bulldog meets the Crimson in an athletic contest. The captain and star right fielder of the Yale baseball team, Eddy, is the son of H. B. Eddy '94 of Mamaroneck, N. Y. Curiously enough, the fathers of the two Yale athletes were classmates at Harvard...