Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president of Princeton, celebrated his birthday; lectured to the local Rota,ry club. Dr. William Williams Keen, 90, of Philadelphia, also celebrated his birthday. John Davison Rockefeller,* 87, played golf in Florida with Soldier Adalbert Ames, 91, last Union Army gen eral. And in Detroit, Soldier Roland, 100, came forward. To memoralize the death of Empress Charlotte, he had put on all his medals, for once he had been a colonel of lancers under her hus band, Maximilian...
...Like unrolling carpets ... so thick that in places the ground itself seemed to crawl forward in a grey mass," wrote eyewitnesses. "Tenderhearted" motorists were halted on the highways by the creeping hordes. More brutal drivers forged ahead, until they "skidded and were blocked" by masses of living and dead mice. Every front door in the lowlands of Kern County was reported to be shut fast, housewives staying within, men climbing out their windows to give battle. In the oil fields, workmen awoke to find their shacks alive with squeaking, gnawing rodents. Shoes were nibbled to shreds; socks were like lace...
Fresh from their triumphs in the Knights of Columbus games, the Crimson track men are looking forward to their second clash of the season in the Millrose Athletic Association games, which will be run off on February 2 in Madison Square Garden, New York City. Three days later the University runners will compete in the annual Boston Athletic Association in the Boston Arena...
With the championship of the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association in their possession for the fourth successive season, the Crimson racquet men are looking forward to the opening of the National Team Championship tournament which they have won for the last two years. This year the title clash will be held in Detroit on February 20, 21, and 22. Last year the officials of the national body decided against allowing players to compete in both the team and the individual championships, and as a result the members of the University team will not have a chance at the individual title...
...structures had been removed, which was about a week ago, the present contractors and builders moved in and started work leveling the ground off and digging out the foundations' hole. Two steam shovels are at present in operation and a third will shortly be added, the work being pushed forward with great rapidity...