Word: clung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...behind but wearing well, pulling up. The frail one, Horace G. Orser, of George Washington High School (Manhattan), had fatigued himself cracking over an impregnable service for two hard sets. The third set drew out to deuce, to 6-all, to 7-all. Frail Horace bit his lip, clung to his nerve, made it 8-7, became champion. Score: 6-3, 6-4, 9-7. In the doubles, played afterwards, Henry found solace. He and Malcolm T. Hill, a schoolmate, defended their national junior indoor doubles championship against Horace and his partner, Kenneth Appel...
When the University was started in 1636, the Pilgrim Fathers insisted that Harvard imitate the English universities in compelling students to eat at a common table. Accordingly Nathaniel Eaton, started the first dining-hall which established for Harvard, it has been said, a reputation for poor food that has clung to it for almost three centuries...
...House had been 355 to 54. Following the veto 26 Republicans, including majority leader Nicholas Longworth and Martin B. Madden of Illinois had changed sides to vote against the bonus. Two Democrats had done likewise. The Senate. Then the matter was up to the Senate. If the Senate clung to its original division the bonus would be law. If the President's veto had won nine Senators away from the bill, the bonus would be defeated. The country waited with polite attention, not to say interest. On the morning of the day on which the bill was passed, seven...
Ever since the Civil War, various British investors have hopefully and stubbornly clung to $120,000,000 par value of the bonds of the Confederate Government. The bonds were originally floated abroad to build privateers for the Confederdate States, and to provide other means of carrying on the War of the Rebellion. Most of the bonds were held by members of the British aristocracy, who were sympathetically inclined to the Confederate cause...
Died. Brigadier General Horatio Gates Gibson, 97,"oldest living West Pointer"; in Washington. He entered just as Ulysses S. Grant graduated. Due to his slight stature, he was nicknamed "Agnes"?an appellation which clung to him through life. When he was a lieutenant at the battle of Fredericksburg, his sword was cut from his side by a shell; at the end of the Civil War he was a captain in the regulars. A nonagenarian at his daughter's house in Washington, he smoked from six to ten cigars daily...