Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduate of the Colorado Schol of Mines, a leading U. S. institution in its field, I should like to call your attention to its four-year curriculum leading to the degree of mining, petroleum, or metallurgical engineer, fully as exacting as any engineering course offered at M. I. T. Other "stiff" U. S. institutions are Case School of Applied Science, the Schools of Mines of Columbia, Missouri, Michigan, and Stanford, the engineering schools of many universities...
...Formally received the tariff bill from the Finance Committee, recessed for four days...
...Each year on "Tap Day" at Yale (third Thursday in May) four telephone lines are laid from the "tombs" of the four senior societies to four unknown rooms on the "old campus" of Yale College so that potentates in the "tombs" may know how successfully the tapping is going for their society. Under the elms, 60 desired men are chosen, the telephones removed, the tomb-to-room connections severed...
...Hunter team, oldtime champions, and the Van Ryn-Allison team, Wimbledon ("world's") champions. Round-faced John Hope Doeg of Stanford, 20, lefthanded, a smiting server, was especially pleased with himself because it gave him high rank in a high-ranking tennis family. His mother was one of the four court-famed Sutton sisters. His uncle Thomas C: Bundy, who married May Sutton, onetime champion, was twice national doubles champion with Maurice ("Comet"; McLoughlin Lean-faced George Martin Lott Jr. of Chicago was especially pleased with himself because he felt he had somewhat vindicated his crucial defeat in the Davis...
...Alexander Alekhine and onetime World's Champion Emanuel Lasker, Nimzowitsch gained ten wins, ten draws, had only one loss. Earning 15 points he was proclaimed winner. In a dramatic two-week rally he had advanced from fifth place. Only on the next-to-last day of the four-week tournament did he achieve the lead...