Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Play in the University fall tennis tournaments has progressed steadily without interruption from the weather, and with only one upset recorded. Three men have reached the fifth round in the singles play, Captain J. F. W. Whitbeck '27, B. H. Whitbeck '29, and Frank Donovan 1L. Joseph Van Ende 1 G.B. furnished a surprise by defeating M. T. Hill '30, a seeded player, to enter the fourth round. All other seeded men have advanced without difficulty...
That Harvard is discarding at least one traditional feature in planning its 1927 football schedule was evidenced when it was announced in Cambridge yesterday that the Crimson eleven would meet the University of Indiana next fall in the fifth game of the season. Since this is the week before the Princeton contest, Harvard will be meeting one of the strongest of the "Big Ten" Conference teams just before the opening of the "Big Three" gridiron series. For a number of years it has been the policy of the Harvard authorities to play a comparatively easy game before the contest with...
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Alfred Emanuel Smith, thrice-elected Governor of New York, was nominated for the fifth- time by the Democrats. Everybody knows "Smiling Al"-he who was born where the crazy, criss-cross shadows of Brooklyn Bridge meet the East Side of Manhattan. Young Alfred was by nature an actor and orator, by trade a seller of fishes in the Fulton Fish Market, when one day in 1896 "Big Tom" Foley, Tammany chieftain, noticed a political gleam in his eyes. Alfred progressed-clerk in the commissioner's office, legislator, speaker of the Assembly, governor, presidential aspirant. The lower East Side sang...
...Oklahoma 3. Yale had a romp against Boston University. Two backs that have never been heard of before- Goodwine and Decker-helped a good deal to amass the formidable score of 51 to 0. Paul Scull, one of the fastest backs in the East, made Pennsylanvia's fifth touchdown in the last period against Johns Hopkins, which scored only once. Georgetown, outplayed, held Pittsburgh to a 6-6 tie. Cornell found in Niagara a well-drilled team too light to score and lucky enough to hold the Ithacan applecart to 28 points...