Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students in the Naval Science Department who plan to qualify as Ensigns in the Navy are required to take one of these summer cruises. Fifteen members of the class of 1930 left Boston on June 25 on board the cruiser Florida, especially assigned by the Navy Department to carry the Naval Science units of Harvard, Yale, and Georgia Tech. Proceeding down Long Island Sound, the cruiser touched at Newport and New Haven, where the Yale unit, already veterans of a week's service, disembarked. The cruiser carried the Harvard sailors to Annapolis, where the contingent spent July 4, and sailed...
Cheering, screaming frantic fanatics flooded George Herman ("Babe") Ruth with the wildest ovation ever accorded a baseball player. In the eighth inning of a New York game against Washington, Ruth hit a ball pitched by left-handed Thomas Zachary into the right field bleachers. The home-run was Ruth's 60th of the season...
...raised an outcry, tore her clothing, and rushing out on the street to a woman she called her mother, screamed that Jones had assaulted her. . . . Jones at first failed to realize that he had been victimized by . . . the . . . 'badger game.' " A scandal ensued and the sailor left Russia...
Early in October, 1921, a football team from the University of Indiana left the Stadium, after vainly attempting to check a powerful Crimson offense, on the short end of a 19 to 0 score. After a six year interlude in gridiron relations between Cambridge and the Middle West, the football representatives of Purdue, another Indiana university, appeared on the Stadium turf last Saturday and reversed by the same count the former Harvard Hoosier football verdict...
...here in Cambridge. Moreover we are used to looking the wrong way for motors. When I start across Harvard Square, I took to the right. By the time I realize I should be looking the other way a honking horde of cars has descended upon me from the left. It's quite the most dangerous place in the world...