Word: callers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout yesterday's workout, various backfields were sent into action while the coaches attempted to get a more definite line on the prospective Harvard ball carriers. The first quartet to take the field was composed of Charles Devens, T. W. Gilligan, and Harper, with Wood as signal-caller. Mason, Mays, and hotter respectively were then sent in as substitutes for the first of these three. Two more combinations, on which most of the other candidates working out under backfield Coach Casey played, were also sent into action, but so bewildering was the series of substitutions that no definite information could...
Taking the ball at mid-field, Batchelder then unleashed a 30-yard forward to Record. The remaining distance to the scoring line was covered on a Wetmore-to-Batchelder lateral. The diminutive signal-caller failed to put his kick over the cross...
...officials." Fortnight ago, no longer a Congressman, just a platform-lecturer on a holiday, Dryman Upshaw arrived in Manhattan. He walked into the offices of the New York Graphic and asked to speak to its publisher and his good friend, Bernarr Macfadden. Publisher Macfadden was not there, so the caller said to Editor M. H. Weyrauch: "This is my vacation and I'd like to be a reporter so I can see what li'l ole New York is really like." Alert for publicity, Editor Weyrauch gave Dryman Upshaw a job as a news-gatherer, told...
...Wright as auditor of the Philippine Islands, appointed Maj. General Creed ¶ Hammond to succeed him. Also appointed was Robert Ridgeway, Chief Engineer of the New York Board of Transportation, as a U. S. delegate to the World Engineering Congress in Tokyo next October. ¶ A caller at the White House: Minnesota's Governor Theodore Christiansen. His message to President Hoover: The northwest is dissatisfied with the tariff bill, will make trouble at the polls unless husbandry is accorded better protection (see p. 12). ¶ When the Hoovers moved into the White House, the East Room was wired...
...Sunday, Convict Sinclair received his first caller, John Hardy, a Manhattan business associate. They sat in the pharmacy talking, smoking cigars. A guard stood at the door, to bar intruders. Mr. Hardy stayed 30 minutes beyond the regulation hour for visitors...