Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mecklenburg County, a few miles from Charlotte, son of "the most wonderful mother and father any child ever had." In the rare moments of relaxation allowed him by his breakneck schedule, he contentedly remembers his three-mile walk along dirt roads to the school where Miss Dewell Marshall taught eleven grades in one room; he remembers falling asleep during the hour-long Presbyterian sermons of Preacher Greer and Preacher Walker; he remembers the fish fries on the Catawba River and the swimming hole at Uncle Henry Rhyne's. He remembers, too, the time he played hooky with...
Hard Cash. Charlie Rhyne's first view of the law in action came when he was eleven or twelve. "A man who was a member of one of the big families of the county had his throat slit from ear to ear by his wife, an outsider," says Rhyne. "The feeling in the community against the girl was extremely adverse. The attorney who defended her was an old string-tie lawyer named C. W. Tillett. I begged my father into letting me go to the trial one day. Tillett engaged in flamboyant arguments, told the jury...
...shutout was saved three times by double plays, with Martin himself involved in two of them. The game was primarily a pitchers' duel, with Northeastern limited to only three hits and Crimson batsmen garnering seven safeties off Northeastern pitchers. The Yardlings left seven on base, while the Huskies stranded eleven...
...only quarrel one can have with this analysis is that they have misrepresented, as did eleven Princeton seniors in The Unsilent Generation (And isn't this silence bit getting confusing now?), the aspirations of their contemporaties. The Editor people say we're silent and inward-directed; the Princeton people, whom they cite with pride, are unsilent and inward-directed. Every-body else is, presumably at least, inward-directed, and all of us are different from our fathers, they...
Princeton defeated the varsity rugh team, 6 to 0, Saturday, ending the Crimson's string of eleven consecutive league victories. However, the win cost the Tigers two broken noses and a fractured collarbone...