Word: handed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this juncture, Carney was brought onto the firing line and held the Crimson well in hand for the rest of the tilt, no earned runs being scored off his delivery. Lafayette scored four times in the fifth, during a temporary demoralization of the Harvard infield...
When hatched and grown, they developed into a little five-inch burnished cock, which shone like a jewel or a bird of paradise, and a more sober but exquisite hen. These two, Frank and Nina, and all their numerous progeny for many years, Sophocles trained to the hand. Each knew its name, and would run from the flock when its white-haired keeper called, and, sitting upon his hand or shoulder, would show queer signs of affection, not hesitating even to crow...
Just how much the race will determine is hard to tell. Swaim is well-knit and has good endurance, but his stroking is too short and too erratic to be all that is desired in a good stroke man. Watts, on the other hand, is long in the water and rows a smooth, steady stroke, but is too lanky and light-built to have the reserve power at the finish of a race which is necessary for a good stroke oar when it comes to driving a boatload of oarsmen...
...Graustein may protest, the sound sense of the public will know that it is bad public policy to have an important and constantly increasing group of newspapers under the ownership of a great public utility corporation. The International is hurting the standing of American journalism. It is biting the hand that feeds...
...Shields has a hard task ahead of him. He is far from the sea, but the waves dash overhead, and they carry the voices of Columbia professors and Helen Kane. A wave of the hand may stop the sea, but it will take a turn of the dial to keep sin outside Des Moines...