Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Law came up to the White House in a taxi and, finding himself out of funds, borrowed two bits from Gus, to the great glee of the assembled reporters. Fred Storm (United Press) immediately shot the story into the U.P. and within a couple of minutes it was back in...
Those two incidents represented not La Follette I's political wisdom but his aberrations. In Wisconsin he played the role of earnest reformer, whipped his Progressive followers into a party within the Republican Party. With that formula he proved invincible. When he died in 1925 he bequeathed his fame...
Champion Balko's record of 25.78 net bushels in 1 hr. 20 min. was far below the world's record of 36.9 net bushels, set in 1932 by Carl Seiler, Illinois' left-handed champion.
Not until the President had a mind to go tiger hunting in the East and chanced to read Grew's account of the subject did Grew get his first break in the Service. Any young man who could crawl single-handed into a cave and dispose of a tiger, Teddy...
I do not wish to offer a judgment of superiority or inferiority. I critize Cambridge more severely than my American friends who have worked there. The unctuous epigram is too apt to be handed out as a substitute for statement. Et surtout, messieurs, pas trop de zele. On balance, though...