Word: conly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...criticism and defense, pro and con have come from professors, from busi- ness men, from free-lance writers in Greenwich Village or Stuyvesant Square whose closest connection with a college has been a Row ZZZ seat at the Yale-Maryland game in 1922. The undergraduate press, on its mettle, has oiled its cylinders and turned out bales of stuff. But in most cases a single college, or colleges as a whole, has had to take punishment from individuals whose position made it possible for them to lift up their voice and be sure that it would be heard...
...Hoover had no less a precedent than Calvin Coolidge, with whom he went to lunch as Nominee Smith was nearing Denver. What Nominee Smith said next, about the Hoover position on Water Power, might have shaken a less resolute nature. But only spokesmen replied. The Hoover silence on .Smith con- tinued and showed no sign of breaking...
...There have been a half-dozen separate engineering reports, pro and con, on Boulder Dam. Nominee Hoover apparently referred to the commission of five engineers, appointed last spring at the Senate's behest by the Secretary of the Interior, to restudy the project and report once more this Autumn. This commission began its work last week, at Denver...
...paid $2.50. Then he played more for Hugo and was paid a little more and then he moved on to a town called Dennison. One afternoon a stranger in a tan felt hat watched him from the little stand beside the bleached, hot field. The stranger was Con- nery, scout for the St. Louis Cardinals; oilers had told Connery that there was a good player in Dennison. Connery paid $500 for Hornsby's release and handed him a ticket to St. Louis. Many ballplayers get their start much the same way; many of them show up again in their...
...Con., June 18--With only three days before the race with Yale Coach E. J. Brown '96, put the first University eight through light drills both in the morning and afternoon...