Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gubernatorial inaugural address, he called attention to the fact that there was a precedent (that of David B. Hill, who served both as Governor of New York and as Senator) according to which he might hold both offices, but declared that he did not believe it was good policy to do so, and repeated this opinion in resigning next morning...
...leaders of this group made strenuous efforts to induce ex-Premiers Orlando and Giolitti to join them in their boycott, but they were rebuffed; Signori Orlando and Giolitti declined to associate themselves with an illegal organization. The leaders went sorrowfully back to their Hill. Rumors were that the boycott was to be discontinued...
...that end is a most effective means of relieving the College of the vocational burden it has partly attempted to bear. More than ever before it can become a true center of the teaching of the humanities. Nor will it require the services of the gentlemen on the hill...
...interesting feature of the teams is the fact that Clarence Wanamaker, head coach of this year's Yale sextet, opposes Coach E. L. Bigelow of Harvard at center. The line-up follows: HARVARD DARTMOUTH Martin, Rice l.w. r.w. Geran, Eaton Bigelow, Snelling c. c. Wanamaker, Murphy Bright, Hill r.w. l.w. Sheehy, Lyons Owen l.d. r.d. Tuck, Currier Crosby r.d. l.d. D. Perry, W. Perry Wylde g. g. Learned
They were not Tilden and Johnston. They were not Borotra and Brugnon. They were much younger than that- slim high school lads in their teens. But to them the match was infinitely more important than any that was ever played at Forest Hills or Wimbledon. And they played ably- serving swiftly, slamming hard- there in a Manhattan armory, for the national junior indoor tennis championship. The larger of the two, Henry C. Johnson Jr., of Newton Academy (Waban, Mass.), was behind but wearing well, pulling up. The frail one, Horace G. Orser, of George Washington High School (Manhattan), had fatigued...