Word: line
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English athletes will sail on the S. S. Ascania of the Cunard Line on June 11, arriving in this country about two weeks before the meet. A tentative line up forwarded to the University athletic authorities is a follows: Sprints: B. M. Norton (O); 440-yards dash: R. Leigh Wood (O); 880-yard run: W. C. Went-worth (O), and N. H. Gutteridge (O); One-mile run: C. E. Green (C), and H. S. Townsend (O); Three-mile run: D. M. Wilson (C), and J. M. Humphrey (O): High hurdles: H.G. Harper (O), and I. R. Mann (C); Low Hurdles...
Wheeling & Lake Erie is, roughly, an X-shaped road, with one arm running from Toledo to Wheeling, W. Va., the other from Cleveland to Zanesville, Ohio, the two crossing at Brewster, Ohio. The Van Sweringens, who consider the Wheeling & Lake Erie a desirable unit in their proposed Fourth Trunk Line, have acquired control of the road through stock held by the Nickel Plate and Alleghany Corp.* But Frank Taplin, largest single stockholder and leader of a powerful minority group of Wheeling & Lake Erie stockholders opposed to Van Sweringen denomination, has also a Trunk Line plan. Less ambitious than...
Public opinion did not follow the President's line of thought. When the commissioners were announced last fortnight, all alert newspaper editors were quick to weigh them in Wet-and-Dry scales. Great were the stirrings among U. S. Drys, Consolidated, and U. S. Wets, Limited, to assemble debatable material to put before the commission. The President's legalistic examiners were lightly spoken of at Washington dinner tables as "highbrow highball homilecticians...
Evidently the 400 had some hope that this line of reasoning would enlist Public Opinion against the "talkies" and restore, by subtle insistence, the jobs of 35,000 workless men. For one other thing which the convention did before adjourning was to raise the salary of President "Joe" Weber, best business brain of their once-potent union, from $15,000 per annum...