Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team batting average of the Crimson nine has reached a new peak of 280 for the year as the result of consistent slugging in the last three contests. The defense, on the other hand, has crumpled sadly on occasions and will enter the Yale series with the low season average...
...trees and flower bushes the authorities that be, last Monday, can out into the open lifted their veil secrecy, and broke ground for the Ne Houses. There was no fanfare of trumpets no cutting of silver ribbons or leaking of ginger-ale bottles President Lowell was not even at hand to be photographed turning over the first sod with a silver spade. It was a very business-like affair. A steam shoved appeared on the scene planted itself in a point of vantage and began to soop. The deed was done...
...faculty turned. Picking him was shrewd, for the professor of surgery at Bellevue Hospital, one of the units of the proposed centre, has long been Dr. George David Stewart. And Dr. Stewart has almost as long been Mr. Baker's doctor and friend. Hence sentiment made the ready Baker hand more ready, and a little insistent. The $1,000,000 was, he stipulated, to be an endowment and the endowment must be called the George David Stewart Endowment. Dr. Stewart must be its administrator...
...Significance is bitterly condensed in two sentences. At the Front, murder, "that very crime on which formerly the world's condemnation and severest penalty fell, becomes our highest aim." The other sentence. "Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades?words, words, but they hold the horror of the world...
...popular synonym for the ultimate in worthless money. But though the U. S. Department of State remains unaware of the existence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, U. S. industry is now inclined to believe that Russians habitually pay their bills and that a ruble in the hand is as good as 51½¢ in the bank. Thus last week Amtorg, Russian trading corporation at No. 261 Fifth Ave., Manhattan, announced the following contracts entered into by U. S. corporations with Soviet Russia...