Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bring the money into the box office without spending some of it first." Last week, approaching the celebration of his Silver Anniversary as Manager of the Giants, Mr. McGraw was having troubles. His team, even though it is captained by that mighty slugger, Rogers Hornsby, was in fourth place, losing games with exasperating regularity. After suffering four straight defeats at the hands of the Chicago Cubs, the Giants lost two out of four games to the St. Louis Cardinals. Meanwhile, a newspaper despatch quoted Mr. McGraw as saying: "I am getting tired of traveling and I expect to step...
...Shiny boots were re-shined, polished buttons re-polished, cleaned rifles re-cleaned last week at Fort Meade, Army post. For there was stationed the First Squadron of the Fourth Cavalry, and from that squadron, announced Major General Harry A. Smith, Commander of the Seventh Corps Army Area, Omaha, was to be chosen the presidential guard which will look after the safety of the President during his summer stay in the Black Hills...
...Important as the exterior of the new Fogg is, it is the interior which makes it one of the most remarkable and exemplary places of museum architecture in America. The pivot and center of the building is a great court bordered on three sides by arcades and on the fourth by a grill behind which are situated a number of cubicles and private studies connecting with the library. The court is "the ideal of the Museum expressed in stone." H. R. Shepley '09, in his designing of this court, spent a number of months abroad...
...Princeton. J. F. W. Whitbeck '27, leader of this year's court aggregation, and L. H. Gordon '27, number two player on the team, both of whom will go to England this summer with the combined Harvard-Yale tennis team which will meet the Oxford-Cambridge players, are ranked fourth and tenth respectively. Two players from Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Williams, and one from Dartmouth have been named to make up the team...
Saturday's defeat was the fourth of the year for Harvard and the first for Barbee, who had 10 straight starts to his credit before he went into the box against the Philadelphians. Pitching excellent ball at the outset, he held the Quakers at bay for four innings, and until the fifth inning it looked as though the 20,000 alumni gathered in the stands would have little to cheer about. But in that inning the Penn team gained impetus and the sixth turned the tide, the Quakers bunching their hits and staging a three-runrally...