Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ambassador Alexander Pollock Moore of Peru, returning last fornight to the U. S., gave full credit for the Tacna-Arica settlement to Herbert Hoover...
Pitchers. The pitchers have been having a hard time. Where once it was something of a disgrace for a pitcher to be batted out of the box, it is now a matter for comment when a pitcher lasts the full nine innings. "Best" pitcher of the year has been Robert Moses Grove of the Philadelphia Americans. A huge young man, Pitcher Grove propels the ball at such speed that few batters are able to time it correctly, and no matter how "lively" a ball may be it will travel no distance when the batter misses it. The Grove record...
...Prevention Commission (Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament, president), Health Commissioner Shirley W. Wynne borrowed a half-dozen trucks from the street cleaning department, cleaned them, placarded them with warnings against diphtheria, and advice to use toxin-antitoxins. Aboard each car he loaded a doctor, two nurses and a refrigerator full of toxin-antitoxin. Then these "healthmobiles" rolled forth among the city's millions like itinerant waffle carts. Spectacular, convenient, they "sold" the idea of preparing in July for winter's diphtheria, administered great numbers of immunizing doses, all gratis...
...giving experimental, free, outdoor concerts on the Charles River Basin Esplanade (TIME, July 15). Last week the experiment could no longer be considered experimental. The attendance had amazed even optimistic Conductor Arthur Fiedler. His nightly audiences, numbering between 5.000 and 8,000 are twice as large as a wintertime full-house at Symphony Hall...
...Fiedler Sr. retired, took his family to Europe. Since he did not wish Arthur to follow music, the boy ran errands for a Berlin publisher. After five weeks, his head full of harmonics, he rebelled. Fiedler Sr., repentant, taught him the violin from that June into the following Fall. Then, out of 53 competitors he was accepted for one of three vacancies at the Berlin Royal Academy of Music. When War came he sailed for Boston, where the late Conductor Karl Muck hired him for the Boston Symphony. When the U. S. went to war, he went to camp...