Word: junior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week at Rumson, N. J., where fishhawks nest on the telephone poles and the Shrewsbury River winds placidly into the sea. The National Open tournament next month at Meadowbrook will be U. S. Polo's Number One event for 1929. Last week's play was the National Junior...
...polo, a "junior" is a player handicapped at six goals or less; a "junior" team has 20 goals or less. '"Juniors" may be anywhere from schoolboys to grandfathers. The best juniors of the year turned out to be four college youths, captained by a sophomore...
...Aikens had to start out against the Old Oaks, junior champions in 1928, a team commanded by hard-riding Oldster Howard S. Borden with able young Michael Phipps at No. 1. They rode through to a 10-to-7 victory after trailing by two goals in the third chukker. Then they had to play the Greentrees. After four chukkers they were behind seven goals...
...become a rabbi. At the age of nine he had been studying the Talmud for three years. In 1906 Sarnoff Sr. died. In the same year young David got a $5 job as messenger boy with Commercial Cable Co. He saved $2, bought a telegraph instrument, soon was a junior telegraph operator with the old American Marconi...
...prices (9¢ and 18¢ rather than 10¢ and 20¢). In 1874 Lazarus Straus, who had come to the U. S. as a refugee after the German revolution of 1848, leased part of Macy's basement and opened a crockery store. Captain Macy died in 1877, and until 1888 junior partners carried on the business. In 1888 control passed to Nathan and Isidor Straus, sons of Lazarus Straus, and in 1902 Macy's moved to its present Herald Square location. Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus went down with the Titanic (1912). Their sons, Jesse L, Percy S., and Herbert N., purchased...