Word: burgesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saskatchewan, where a vacant seat had been specially created by the resignation of one of Mr. King's friends in order that he might campaign for it. The territory was naturally chosen with an eye to being "safe." The candidate who opposed the Premier was one Captain D. L. Burgess, a sufficiently insignificant Independent. Suddenly, on the eve of the election, the Captain became obstreperous. He used the word "corruption." He pointed to a printed ballot on which appeared the Premier's full style and title. He brandished the ballot and demanded to know through what "pernicious influence" the letters...
Capt. Webb... 1875 21 hr. 45 min. William Burgess......... 1911 22 hr. 35 min. Charles Toth......... 1923 16 hr. 40 min. H. F. Sullivan............ 1923 27hr. 25 min. Enrique Tirabocchi..... 1923 16hr...
...last week performed this feat as part of her training. She entered a marathon swim from Corbell to Paris, one woman in a field of eleven men. Two black Senegalese swimmers, accustomed to the tepid rivers of Afria, turned saffron, then green with cold, left the race. T. W. Burgess, Englishman who swam the Channel in 1911, followed suit. One by one the giant swimmers quit until only five were left, among them stout-hearted Miss Harrison. At the Austerlitz Bridge she had cramps; at the Chamber of Deputies she recovered; finished fourth after 14 hr. 37 min. of swimming...
Bradley Polytechnic Institute (Peoria, Ill.), announced Dr. F. R. Hamilton, onetime President of Marshall College (Huntington, W. Va.), as successor to the chair of her late President, Dr. Theodore C. Burgess...
HARVARD TUFTS Zarakov 3b. s.s. Fulton Ellison r.f. c.f. McDermott Todd l.f. 3b. Ringland Tobin 1b. p. Shuman Hammond 2b. 1b. Kelley Burgess c.f. l.f. McCloskey Keene s.s. 2b. Strathdee DeRham c. c. Bagley Herrmann p. r.f. Hunter...