Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ninth inning and knocked a straight pitch over the right field fence, bringing in Bishop and tying the score. By slaps and gesticulations, since words could not be heard, Cubs tried to make Malone feel better, but his nerve was gone. He took a long breath, got rid of Mickey Cochrane on a grounder; burly Simmons doubled. Joe McCarthy signalled to pass Foxx. While the crowd, inimical to strategy, was hooting this. Miller's two bagger brought the run that won the championship and $6,000 prize money for each first-string Athletic; to each Cub-loser...
...last fortnight was bothering "El Gallo." Doubtless Mr. Guggenheim, too, perused the Platti-tudes with close attention. In the end, however, the Senate decided that Cuban affairs, though vexed, were not critical. The situation called for the ability and popularity of a Harry Guggenheim, did not call for the long professional training of, for instance, a Hugh Gibson...
...engaged in the financial and business side of mining rather than the engineering, and finance did not so much appeal to him. When Chile Copper Co. was sold to Anaconda, he came back to the U. S., built himself his fine Norman manor on Long Island, had otherwise no occupation...
...very long ago a friend of mine- one of that fine, hearty type who believes in being a Yale man and shaming the devil-told me his troubles. He was far from satisfied with the way things were going presently at New Haven, or, for that matter, at any of the American colleges. We were all in a bad way. He had no particular criticism to make of the teaching; this did not greatly interest him. 'But undergraduates,' he held-and on this point he was positive-'are not the men they used...
...seen, is a mistake. He tells you also that they are smaller. I recall one such enthusiast who insisted to me that present-day graduates were 'runty.' Here he is more seriously in error, for where physical examinations and measurements in the colleges have continued over any long stretch of time, they indicate, if anything, that the average freshman is somewhat taller...