Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...henchman, Frank Waterman Stearns, was re-named "the Colonel House of Boston." Prohibition Chief Lincoln C. Andrews saw himself tending bar to a furtive, thirsty Uncle Sam. Very few Gridiron perennials were dragged out but Coolidge Silence got its time-honored mention, as did the Coolidge electrical horse. The latter, however, was rechristened "Old Dynamo, by Tom Edison out of Electric Socket...
Broken Faith. Sun, in return for his $300,000 a month, has received the aid of several thousand of Chang's hosts as well as the latter's "friendship." But last week Chang saw that the Cantonese were pressing hard upon Sun. The time was opportune to forget the $2,000,000 payment that had passed between them. Chang, ever faithless, forgot it easily; last week, ordered his troops with Sun to betray the latter, and marched upon Shanghai himself with an army said to number...
...Evidently a press error. The two planes that "continued" thus have been the St. Louis and the San Francisco, the latter piloted by Captain Ira C. Eaker, eye-witness author of the above account...
...Ashton, Idaho, Earl Kimball of the government mail service won the eleventh annual U. S. dog derby, a much shorter event. Breaking no record he covered the 25-mile course in 1 hr., 57 min., 16 sec., evoked comment by using a team of Irish setters. The latter are said to have understood the term "Mush!" perfectly, to have behaved beautifully in the absence of quail, pheasant...
...scores; it defeated Princeton by the count of 25 to 6. The Harvard Freshmen have improved greatly in the last three games, beating Brown by one point, but losing to Dartmouth at Hanover by a large score. According to Coach A.W. Samborski '25, they found their bearings in the latter game, and in losing were weldede into a unit, playing fast and coordinated basketball.CAPTAIN J.S. MALICK...