Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...listed in the national ranking, not seeded in the national tournament, a young man named William Aydelotte charged to the net in Manhattan last week and chopped the line drives of Julius Seligson into the corners. Each won two sets. In the second game of the fifth set Seligson twisted his ankle, limped, made an ugly face, sat down, got up, went on playing, limping. "Not that will aid a lot" punned the crowd, but critics noted that J. Seligson's game had slumped before his ankle, applauded Aydelotte as he went on to win the fifth...
...line drive hit John McGraw in the right ankle which swelled up. McGraw, who had a dancing date that evening, sent out for crutches, had an X-ray taken, spent a day in his room, came down to the field next day with a camp stool, a cane, a crutch, and a megaphone. Later in the hotel he called the squad round him, put them through tactical drill he calls "skull practice...
Financial press agents fought doughtily all week, as they did less conspicuously for three preceding weeks, over a national railway problem, essentially political, secondarily financial. The problem is whether there are to be four or five dominant trunk-lines westward from New York. The fifth, if at all, would be organized and run by Leonor Fresnel Loree, who now controls the Delaware & Hudson. Mr. Loree, grizzly-bear of railroads, Harriman's successor in talent, conferred for nearly three hours. His conferees represented four trunk-line adversaries: the Pennsylvania, the New York Central, the Baltimore & Ohio and the Van Sweringen...
...Loree's opponents succeed in crowding him out of the Eastern trunk-line field the following mergers will in all probability become effective as long planned...
...Delaware & Hudson will remain an independent or "bridge" line...