Word: hammond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Percy Hammond: ". . . It is a terrible, childish, discouraging mess. Summer has come...
...Narrowcasting," applied to the new developments of Marconi and young J. Hammond Smith, in which person-to-person reception is secured by tuning out all but the desired station, is another possible addition to the radio vocabulary...
Theodore E. Burton, Congressman from Ohio: "The keynote speech which I made at the Republican National Convention found little favor with Percy Hammond and Franklin Pierce Adams, two famed Manhattan colyumists. Said Hammond: 'The keynote speech of Congressman Burton. . . an aged man, was a complete assemblage of all the honest and senile platitudes. . . It was the longest, dullest speech that I have ever heard.' Said Adams: 'Over the radio, applause for a platitude sounds even sillier than it does when you're one of the applauders yourself...
HarvardTufts Jenkins s.s. 3b. Etelman Campbell 1b. c.f. Crowley Gordon c.f. r.f. Atherton Todd l.f. 1b. McDowell Hammond 2b. l.f. Kenneally Cheek c. c. Bagley Rogers r.f. s.s. Glennon Hill 3b. 2b. Mahoney Brown p. p. Morais...
...change in the batting order will be tried in this afternoon's game. Samborski has been moved up to the fifth position, with Hammond, Rogers and Hill sliding down a peg. This puts together the hard hitting trio of Gordon. Todd and Samborski, a change that should increase the team's scoring ability...