Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cordingley pitched for the Seconds, allowing his opponents eight hits. The Seconds were only able to collect half that number but they made them count for four runs in the first inning, when Roland connected for a long home run with the bases loaded. The game was marked by little hitting, and it was their nine errors as much as anything that robbed the Seconds of the victory...
...Republicans, unable to obtain exact count of the fugitive circulation of The National Republican which lived strenuously for several years as a weekly, lately changed to a monthly, diagnosed Representative Oldfield as having been infected with the bacillus optimisticus common to all circulation managers...
Opening. At Geneva, 39 members of the League of Nations and 4 nonmembers* inquired into the question of controlling traffic in arms and other munitions of war. Count Henri Carton de Wiart, President of the Conference, pointed out in his opening speech that "control" was meant in the French sense of the word (surveillance) and not in the English sense of authority. Much confusion became, nevertheless, rapidly manifest...
Died. Giorgio Calvi di Bergolo, Prince of Montemagno, 6 days old, only grandson of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, son of Princess Yolanda, the King's eldest daughter, and Count Calvi di Bergolo; in Pinerolo, Italy, of bronchial pneumonia...
...realm of sportsmanship little things count for much. The changing of the term "opponents" to the more genial "visitors" on the University's score boards is on the surface but a minor alteration, yet it helps to promote that atmosphere of gentlemanly rivalry which ought to distinguish all intercollegiate contests. While Dean Briggs was Chairman of the Athletic Committee it was ever his purpose to foster such a spirit; and this change is but one visible expression of his policy...