Word: following
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lifts him to the heights of rhetoric and the ridiculous we cannot answer. But the mystery to the layman is not in the language, which is after all a first cousin to English, but in how the eye and brain of the reporter could identify the individual and yet follow the play, when Father and Brother, and Uncle Ralph failed miserably, and missed the touchdown because they were looking for Number...
They don't follow it any better than the family. The fact is that sports reporting has become as highly specialized a business as bootlegging, and there are as many aides in the press box as in a European hotel...
...varied customs, pleasant and unpleasant, but all handed down from former days, and constantly in the process of growth. We have found an answer that fits our purpose. The rest of the world may praise or blame as it sees fit. To us they are standards that we must follow to be worthy of the men before us. Some are for the good of the individual--though he often doubts it is plebe days and some we would not part with for gold...
...greatest interest in connection with the present election campaign is the fact that in the straw ballot conducted in the University on May 4, 1920 for the nominations for the respective parties, Hoover carried both Harvard and Princeton in the balloting. The figures follow: Hoover 1121 Wood 632 Johnson 117 Lowden 79 Coolidge 44 Hughes 31 Taft 21 Scattered...
When questioned as to whether he thought that the South would follow its natural Democratic tendencies or be swayed by religious considerations Senator Walsh replied, "I have faith in the South and expect it to retain its solidity. Privately, however, I am a bit worried about Tennessee...