Word: haven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, perplexed spectators watched Mack Hillis, New Haven, Eastern League baseball player, changing places. By the middle of the game they loudly cheered him, no longer perplexed. Hillis played every position on the team in one afternoon, accepting faultlessly a fielding chance in each...
...When Dr. Haven Emerson of Manhattan was a young man, before the Spanish-American War, grandams wisely declared that children grew taller in the springtime, with the plants...
When, after that war, he followed the career of his father, Dr. John Haven Emerson, he observed that children did grow taller in the springtime. They also took sick with colds, fevers, measles, scarlatina, scarlet fever, chicken-pox?in the springtime...
William Edgar Borah, about to change horses, sought a home for Jester, his old mount, aged 14. The new horse was a bay hunter, aged 3, from Virginia. Cautioned about riding it, Senator Borah said: "Well, I haven't had any operation so I am at a better advantage than Will Rogers...
...sauntered down her street and reclined in the sun opposite where she sat glowering on her porch. Neither spoke. After half an hour he strolled away. Next day he appeared again. Her sociability overcame her ire. "Phwat are ye sittin- on the sunny soid for?" she called. "Because I haven't been invited to sit on the shady side," he called back. She invited him over. He made friends. Before long he had hired her to superintend the moving of her neighbors...