Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...People wondered whence he had acquired his wealth. Last week he and eight of his employes were indicted as the operators of 45 breweries and an airplane bootlegging system. Federal agents said that Aviator Parker's transportation methods had put his profits over the $5,000,000 mark...
...literature for children. It was no secret that Mr. Melchei hoped by this ruse to induce able writers to turn their attention, from the library to the nursery. The examples set by Authors Charles Kingsley, Rudyard Kipling, Sir James Barrie, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, A. A. Milne and many another backed...
Balked in line plunges and end runs, the Juniors resorted to the field goal route to break the ice, and Heard tried a difficult drop-kick from the side of the field, 30 yards from the goal. The ball travelled the distance, but went wide of the mark. Again in the second quarter, after a long march during which the Juniors tore off gain after gain, the 1928 quarterback tried a goal from the 15 yard chalk directly in front of the posts, but Ingalls, Sophomore guard who was a tower of strength in the forward barrier throughout the game...
...forward pass intercepted at midfield. Failing to gain ground through the line, the ineligibles resorted to the overhead attack, but Gamache intercepted the ball and the University machine resumed its interrupted march forward which did not end until Sayles crashed through for a touchdown from the two-yard mark...
...judge the merits of her elders. However, there are those who still believe a background of a dozen years in this world of life and letters rather tenuous and not half so formidable as that which Aristotle, Longinus, Boileau, St. Beuve, Dryden, Goethe, Coleridge, Saintsbury, Paul Elmer More, Mark Van Doren and a few others have possessed...