Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jones r.f. 17 69 16 17 0 0 0 1 4 .246 28 1 4 .878 Chauncey c. 14 46 12 11 1 0 0 1 1 .239 65 13 4 .951 DeRham c. 8 27 5 6 1 1 1 0 0 .222 25 6 4 .886 Lord 1b. 3 15 2 3 0 0 0 0 1 .200 23 0 2 .920 Ellison r.f. 10 37 2 6 1 0 0 0 2 .162 15 11 0 1.000 Tobin 1b. 15 51 8 8 1 0 0 3 0 .156 126 11 4 .971 Cutts...
...Jones, Coach Jack Coombs thereupon retired him in favor of Goeltz in an effort to stave off a run. But Zarakov followed with a neatly placed sacrifice advancing the men to second and third. After Burns was nipped at the plate on Todd's grounder Tobir, who replaced Lord in the lineup at first base in a last minute shift, singled cleanly and Jones scored with the just...
...strangest feature of the book is Mr. Lindsay's own illustrations, mostly contained in the latter half where he goes maundering off after Egyptian hieroglyphics. They look like nothing or everything, according to the taste and fancy of the speller, my lord...
...immersion, accepting a profession of faith as an equivalent of the ordered cleansing. "Let us read these churches out of the faith," fundamentalists have insisted through their leaders, Dr. John Roach Straton of Manhattan and Dr. William B. Riley of Minneapolis. Prolonged applause hailed every fundamentalist speaker. "Praise the Lord," shouted the delegates. The modernists, themselves true and loyal brethren, sat silent. Clearly the fundamentalists had a majority. On the third day excitement reached its height. Yet when the count was taken, it was found that the fundamentalists had more cheers than votes. They were beaten...
...Lord Chesterfield gave his name to a cigaret; Robert Burns to a cigar. English royalty brought no action because the name of Queen Victoria's consort was borrowed for a frock coat. George Washington is godfather to a kind of coffee; Abraham Lincoln to an automobile. Why then should a descendant of General Ambrose Everett Burnside object to having her uncle remembered for his whiskers? So pleaded the counsel defending Colgate & Co. against a suit for damages brought (TIME, May 31) by Miss Ella Patterson of Milwaukee, niece of the whiskered soldier. Her suit was dismissed...