Word: evener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many were the visitations of great and near-great at the White House last week. Some talked out against the enormous sounding board of presidential prestige. Others came and went in silence. To all President Hoover extended his even-handed hospitality...
Minister Euler also told the House of Commons that on occasion U. S. Customs agents even assisted rum-runners to unload their cargoes. He said: "No effort, so far as we can see, is made by the U. S. to seize any of these boats. The U. S. customs always are notified by us an hour or two before the boats leave and occasionally we notify them as the boats are leaving. . . . U. S. customs officials have requested the Canadian authorities to discontinue our daily telephone notifications of clearance of liquor-laden vessels and have asked them to mail them...
Football in 1888 was largely a matter of brute force. Even the flying wedge and tandem formations had yet to make their approved appearance. Without open play, the ball started from the rush-line and went forward as far as the combined strength of the beefy rushers could carry...
...gridiron to do what the coaches expected of him. No empty-headed bruiser, he made a place for himself in the Varsity rush-line. (In those days there were no prissy eligibility rules; a man could play from his first to his last college year?and even after.) Sweating and grunting Rusher Heffelfinger helped to roll Yale over Princeton 10 to 0. The next year his team crushed Harvard and the third year overcame Princeton again...
...Even so, Lady Aster's husband's horse, Cragadour, was attracting quite as much space in the papers as any of the leading candidates...