Word: guard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock in the afternoon his son, his grandson, his daughter-in-law and numerous old friends, including Attorney General Sargent and the Governor of Vermont, assembled in his home and heard the service read. It lasted only 14 minutes. Officers of the National Guard carried his body to a sleigh hearse; other sleighs followed to a little graveyard on the hillside close to his ancestral acres...
...with whom I come in contact-the way they live is. their affair. My job is to look after myself so I can stick on the job and give them plenty of work to keep them busy." He keeps fit by keeping a physician hired permanently to guard his health. Although a strong individualist, he agreed that all executives should keep themselves physically fit to conduct properly the affairs of their business. But the keeping fit by golf playing, he sneered at. Doubtless he realized that many a golf game is but the excuse for a "klabberfest," a male gossiping...
Malick, who prepared at Franklin Academy, in Cincinnati, played on his Freshman basketball team and made his letter on the University team last year. This year he has played regularly at right guard. He was also on the University football squad last fall...
...Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, to discuss methods of keeping the government appropriations within the revenue in the coming year; Kermit Roosevelt to tell the President about Ovis poli and the Himalayas (TIME, March 8, SCIENCE); a delegation from the American Legion to urge that a military guard be placed over the tomb of the Unknown Soldier to preserve it from desecration (the President asked them to take up the matter with the Secretary of War-it would have his approval); John V. Mahan, National Commander, and a delegation of the Disabled American Veterans of the World...
...three skaters are Zarakov, Ellison, and Chase, and Barbee, who has been starring at guard on Coach Wachter's basketball team. Zarakov, a flashy infielder, captained his Freshman team, and this year was awarded both the Wingate Cup and Wendall Bat for his performance on the 1925 diamond. The Cup is given to the best general player and the best general player, and the Bat to the best offensive player...