Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth year (1891) that "Pudge" Heffelfinger made his name a Yale football tradition. The Spring before he had been graduated by Sheffield Scientific School. He was then 23 years old, weighed 204 pounds, was 6 ft. 2¾ in. tall and wore a size 10 shoe. His biceps measured 15?in. and he had an inflated chest expansion of 44 4/5 in. He had rowed on the Varsity crew, had been chosen his class president and its most popular member and had written a graduation thesis on the manufacture of boots & shoes...
Wheeling & Lake Erie is, roughly, an X-shaped road, with one arm running from Toledo to Wheeling, W. Va., the other from Cleveland to Zanesville, Ohio, the two crossing at Brewster, Ohio. The Van Sweringens, who consider the Wheeling & Lake Erie a desirable unit in their proposed Fourth Trunk Line, have acquired control of the road through stock held by the Nickel Plate and Alleghany Corp.* But Frank Taplin, largest single stockholder and leader of a powerful minority group of Wheeling & Lake Erie stockholders opposed to Van Sweringen denomination, has also a Trunk Line plan. Less ambitious than...
...paying railway. In 1927 he was transferred to the Erie (not to be confused with the Wheeling & Lake Erie) and rapidly rehabilitated this over-capitalized dividend-passer. Last week was announced his appointment as president of both the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Pere Marquette, these making the third and fourth Van Sweringen roads of which he has been president...
...their homes were confiscated, the eight contractors condemned more land, tore down more houses to straighten the roadway. One of the new houses condemned for the memorial road belonged to a Nanking university professor. Four times he went to the municipal offices, spent $1.80 on ricksha fares. On the fourth trip he received a warrant for the value of his house - total $1.90. The professor donated the 10? profit to the Dr. Sun Yat-sen memorial fund...
...yard run. Five men in each heat qualified for finals. First heat--won by Edwards (N.Y.U.); second, Hackney (Michigan); third, Garland (Princeton); fourth, Elmer (Cornell); fifth, Milstead (Georgetown). Time--1 min. 58 9-10 sec. Second heat--won by Veit (N.Y.U.); second, R. P. Porter '29; third, Offenhauser (Penn State); fourth, Chapman (Bates); fifth, Gassner (N.Y.U.). Time...