Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth week's standing in the straw poll taken in 40 out of the 48 states by the Literary Digest (weekly opinion reporter...
...Delaware & Hudson, the Wabash (which he controlled) and the Lehigh Valley (which he thought he controlled). It was a pretty railroad layout and promised to compete with the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio established systems, and with the Van Sweringen brothers' pattern of the fourth system...
...great strategists. They gained control of the Nickel Plate, the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Hocking Valley and the Erie; they have gained a share (with N. Y. C. and B. & O.) in the Lake Erie & Wheeling. They have had the strategic plan of making those railroads into the fourth eastern system. N. Y. C. has helped them; the B. & O. has removed obstacles; the Pennsylvania has not interfered, overtly. Yet after four years of intricate crocheting at their orris of railroad lines, they have not yet succeeded. The transportation system that they prophesied and prayed for has not yet come true...
Army's two famous tackles form the bulwark of its line. Captain "Bud" Sprague is playing his fourth year of West Point football, and he never fails to be mentioned prominently on the all teams. Bud weighs 220 pounds and is usually the first man down the field under punts. He also kicks off for the team and his toe accounts for most of the points-after-touchdown. Perry, the other tackle, is a 214-pound giant who is seldom boxed in and who holds up his side of the line well. The hardest job imaginable is convincing a cadet...
...scheme at the Academy takes little account of vacations. Except for ten days during the Christmas seasons of his second, third and fourth years, the cadet is allowed but ten weeks respite during the four year term. The summer months are occupied with camp and other military operations...