Word: echoed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...startling shot from the deep grass on the 18th hole at Inwood, Jones won, in addition to the open golf championship, one of the greatest " feasts of honor" ever heaped on a Georgia table and a resolution of appreciation from the Georgia legislature. Only was there an echo from Alaska missing. Possibly the sight of Hurricane Gulch, Alaska, persuaded Mr. Harding that bunkers are trivial affairs after all. "But," protest the politicians, " he should respect the golfing voters. There are only 54,000 voters in Alaska-mostly icemen! " " Yes," replies the poor golfer struggling wearily around a crowded Sunday course...
...stern chase was long and bitter and the struggle to overcome this lead, with the series dependent upon it, was a magnificent example of fighting spirit. The roar which broke forth after Owen's hit will long echo within the shades of the University. However trite congratulations may seem, we must join our voice with the voice of graduates and undergraduates in congratulating Captain Owen and his team and also in wishing them all success on Saturday at Braves Field...
...affirms her intention of not acquiescing in the cancellation of concessions granted before the War. Le Midi, Paris journal, says: " It is a pity the Turks did not ask the Americans to rebuild the Tower of Babel, because the Americans are so good at skyscrapers." Pertinax in the Echo de Paris remarks that "the Chester program is only a means of getting rid of the concessions granted to the French and British." It seems that the Turks, adepts at procrastination, have been playing for time until the psychological moment arrived to ratify the Chester Concessions. It arrived; and the Turks...
...first reprisal was carried out by the police who appeared with orders from the Berlin municipal housing bureau at the apartment of M. de Villemus, correspondent of the Echo de Paris, in the Friedrichs Wilhelmstrasse and threw him, bag and baggage, into the street...
...Pinney's family consists first of his wife, "the mollusk," fat, superstitious, whose voice "held the habitual tone of a bagpipe collapsing." Then there is Mrs. Crum, hard-working mother-in-law, whose voice was "an echo of the spirit of '76," a not altogether unamiable creature. Young Eddie follows the general literary pattern of small boys. He tries to chloroform the cat, gets bad marks at school, is beloved. The daughter, Adelaide, is the high spot of the Pinney family. She is gifted with a budding intelligence which begins to blossom under the beneficent influence of her pleasant...