Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Howard stemmed the tide for an inning or so, but in the fifth, Notre Dame got on to his delivery with a devastating vengence. Every kind of hit, from a single to a homerun, came off the bats of the hard-hitting sluggers from Indiana. Howard Whitmore '29, the next Crimson twirler to see action, replaced Howard. He allowed only three hits in the last half of the game, although two more runs swelled the Notre Dame total...
...whole country saw him coming a year ago. He is (to use the cadence if not the context of a nominating speech) a man whom the Administration dislikes, distrusts and fears not a little; a man who, by failing to submerge politely in the Vice-Presidency, made things hard for the President and helped cause the present fissure in his Party. There are four aspects of Charles Gates Dawes: 1) The striking individual who smokes a freak pipe, wears cut throat collars and memorable neckties, talks rapidly in a high, thin voice, composes music and plays it on piano...
After he had had the Collins woman some time, Ben Bess went to jail for 30 years hard labor. That was in 1915. That trash, Frank Collins, hadn't minded at all about Ben Bess and the woman, until Ben Bess decided not to rent his land any more. Then Frank Collins brought the charge that has lynched many a nigger. The Collins woman, old Maude, backed him up. They said Ben Bess had raped...
...Bess came out of jail but he had no farm to go to. The lawyers had eaten that up long ago. Thirteen years at hard labor had aged and broken him. He had a bad cough. People sent him money and the Legislature will probably provide for him. But Governor Richards agreed that South Carolina's debt to Ben Bess is irreparable...
...morning workout for the Crimson squad was easy and pleasant, in anticipation of the hard row in the afternoon. The Harvard crews paddled easily to the three mile mark, and there rested on their oars while music came across the water from one of the navy ships near the shore. After ten minutes of rest and entertainment, the crews turned around and paddled home in short spurts, reaching the boathouse just before noon...