Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...group, smiles of relief playing on their grim visages, cantered up to an automobile. Nobody was in it. "But they cannot be far away," thought the horsemen. Then, one, with a piercing exclamation of horror, pointed to the back seat of the car on which were scattered the mangled remains of two pet dogs...
...Rakovsky, after a brief sojourn in Moscow, will proceed to Tokyo as Soviet Ambassador to Emperor Hirohito of Japan; for, being a friend of Lev Davidovitch (Leon) Trotzky and therefore identified with the opposition group, his boss, Foreign Commissar Jorge Tchitcherin (pronounced teachereen) prefers him out rather than in the country...
Thirteen years ago the Boston Symphony, superb under Karl Muck, visited San Francisco, and stirred civic-minded Westerners to shame for the flickering, undernourished group of players that went by the name of the San Francisco Symphony. They made big appropriations, swept clean, ousted Conductor Henry Hadley, called Alfred Hertz from New York. Then 43, there were as many gold stars on his record as there were hairs in his beard, stars that went all the way back to his earliest days in Frankfort, when, a square little Hessian boy in skirts, he pulled himself up onto the music piano...
...Science meeting at Urbana, Ill., (see above) Dr. W. C. Allee of the University of Chicago, described how certain marine worms, which normally die in fresh water, survive if a large number of them, all tangled into a ball, are placed in fresh water. Apparently they secrete, as a group, a protective substance...
...Yale they boil their enemies in brawn. Only two of the team that started against Army are stunted under six feet. Yale's pachyderms on the line average 192, behind the line 180. This gargantuan group galloped gravely through Army 10-6, despite the sinewy protests of the most seasoned backfield outside of professional football, Captain Harry Wilson (Penn State) Cagle (Louisiana), Murrell (Minnesota). Just in time did Charles D. Curran, an editor of The Pointer, West Point journal, apologize through the Yale Daily News for an inadvertent, faintly insulting bit of optimism in The Pointer. "Yale will furnish...