Word: loned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard's lone tally came in the sixth when J. P. Chase '28 singled, W. W. Lord '28 walked, and F. B. Cutts '28, who was playing left field, followed with a single that sent Chase across the plate: Lord was the leading hitter of the Crimson team, with two hits in four trips to the place. He slammed out a double in the second, and was walked the next two times he came up. When Walsh finally pitched to him, Lord connected for his second hit, a Texas league single into left field...
...striking difference from myriad other stores; glance two does. A placard reads: "Nothing in this store over 5 & 10 cents." There are other wall slogans: "Ordinarily we dislike seeing folks get in a Pickle but let us help you. There is no gamble about our Diced carrots." A lone cashier, for a dime, will dispense eggs by threes, bacon in strips of six, butter in quarters of a pound, anchovy paste, or vegetal buds...
...Lord '28 collected three of the four hits that his team was able to gather from the offerings of McAfee. Harvard's lone tally came in the second, on singles by Lord and F. E. Nugent '30 and a sacrifice by John Prior...
...when he was fingering the yellowed leaves of a precious document, his own Ledger A, which he had kept as a 16-year-old assistant bookkeeper in a Cleveland commission house. That all-inclusive creed, conceived in youth, ex- pressed at the philosopher's age, was the lone recorded feat of Mr. Rockefeller's imagination. Otherwise, he has exhibited no great creative imagination. But give even a street car conductor a mighty creed, give him an almost perfect mathematical determination to carry it out, and he will build tracks to the ends of the earth...
Students of the period will find the book a stimulating biography of the man who was the lone break in the chain of Stuart monarchy from Elizabeth to William of Orange. Those less familiar with the complex seventeenth century will enjoy contact with a singular personality...