Word: herman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Detroit last week the young, sanguine U. S. tennis team won the American zone Davis Cup preliminaries by taking five matches from some torpid Cubans (Ricardo Morales, Herman Uppman, Gustavo Vollmer). The youngsters-Wilmer Allison, John Hennessey, George Lott, John Van Ryn-then sailed for England, there to team with William Tatem Tilden II and Francis T. Hunter. This U. S. sextet will play the winner of the English-Italian European zone finals for the privilege of meeting France, possessor of the Davis...
...treaty. The World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches was the name under which the 186 signatories placed themselves. Among U. S. signatories were such notables as Bishop James Cannon Jr., Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman, Bishop James Edward Freeman, Dean William Scarlett. Among famed Britishers were Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz, Dean William Ralph Inge, Bishop Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Randall Thomas Baron Davidson, onetime Archbishop of Canterbury. Among famed U. S. Churchmen who did not sign were such men as Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, Bishop William Thomas Manning. The outstanding British absentee was Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop...
...Sunday ball game. Suddenly, without warning, clouds appeared, thunder clapped, rain poured down. Straw hats, spring clothes were in danger. The bleacherites arose en masse and rushed for the wire-lined exits. The exits were small, the rushers many. In the right-field bleacher section, called "Ruthville" because George Herman ("Babe") Ruth knocks most of his homeruns there, a young girl and an old man were trampled to death, 62 others injured...
High jump-Won by G. W. Kuehn '32, 5 ft. i in.; second, tie between D. A. Herman '32 and Blackman...
...Chesterfield, N. H. At Amherst College he studied science, was called "Doc" and chosen class president. Sabrina, Amherst's famed 350-lb. "goddess" statue, was stolen from the class of '93 for the '94 class dinner. Afterwards, "Doc" Stone helped sneak Sabrina to the barn of Herman C. Harvey, back in Chesterfield, there to hide her away under the floor from Calvin Coolidge's class. Agnes Harvey, Mr. Harvey's daughter, was a discreet girl. She could keep the secret of Sabrina. "Doc" Stone married...