Word: davids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pretty good horse and had a "kind of nice gait." He was called The Senator, in honor of U. S. Senator James E. Watson of Indiana. Three terms served The Senator, one with Governor Ed Jackson of Indiana, one with David C. Stephenson, onetime Klan Dragon, one with Bert Schultze, Indiana apple-grower. It was during his service with Mr. Schultze that The Senator, greedily seizing a corncob, got that same corncob stuck fast in his throat. The Senator gasped, choked, struggled, died...
...David Lloyd George is the most despicable man in the world...
Cudgels were picked up variously by U. S. commentators. Some cried, in effect: What about Author Christopher Morley? What about David R. Porter, international secretary of the Y. M. C. A.? What about C. H. Foster, long U. S. Consul at Vienna? And Charles D. Mahaffie, director of Bureau of Finance of the Interstate Commerce Commission? And John James Tigert himself, U. S. Commissioner of Education? These and many another Rhodes Scholar are as well known as able President Aydelotte, or should be. Rhodes Scholars have distinguished themselves right and left?unless "running the country" be taken to mean...
...Oxford. But other worsteds, stretched for races of 220, 440 and 880 yards, were soon broken by Runkel of Cambridge and Brown of Oxford, Runkel winning the 220 and 440 events in quick succession. White of Oxford won the one-mile run. Weightman Smith and Lord David Burghley of Cambridge left their guests clumping behind in the 120-yard high and 220-yard low hurdle races, respectively. All that the Yale-Harvards could do was win the three-mile run, the shot-put, broad jump and pole vault. Two Cantabs out-leaped Wolf and Larsen of Yale in the high...
...last week, claimed Inventor David Machlett, 26, of Long Island City, N.Y., Cornell graduate (1922). His device consists essentially in a hairpin-shaped vacuum tube, filled with neon gas, and having caesium reflectors. The fog-piercing properties depend on the fact that the light has an extremely long wave length...