Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outstanding in the B. U. lineup is Captain Collins, three-year veteran. With him in the infield will be Croke at third, Faladino at short, and Rosnitzky at first. Coach Harmon will probably start Gordon on the mound, Cowan at catcher, Hale in right field, Carroll in left, and Murphy in centerfield...
Irak. Fifteen miles northwest of Mosul, whence oil was first piped to the Mediterranean two months ago (TIME, Jan. 28), lies Tepe Gawra ("Great Mound"), its depths chewed by the shovels of industrious diggers. University of Pennsylvania scientists sank a trial trench in 1927, were convinced that the remains of 20 cities or settlements lay buried in layers, the most recent dating from 1500 B. C., the oldest lost in antiquity, older by far than Ur of the Chaldees (4000 B. C.). One city after another came to light. Last month diggers under Charles Bache of Philadelphia's University...
General Hugh Johnson: "Head gives impression of being all face. Brutal, coarse, ruthless mug of toadlike consistency. Fleshy features of crude clay. Deep ruts ploughed down cheeks as if by cartwheels through heavy mud. Eyes smothered in stout scallops of pulp. Body prehistoric mound, clothing tugged on in folds like armor-clad rhinoceros. Looks neolithic, neckless, materialistic with powerful drive and stubborn pugnacity. Atavistic. Unusually intelligent primate. Nose.like a darning gourd. Expression like an old procuress...
Gracing the mound for the Tag-and-Ticket boys, Judge Arthur b. Stone of the Middlesex Court, was in rare form. Of the 72 Harvard students who came to bat, he retired every man. Umpiring his own game, Judge Stone slapped fines of three to five dollars on each of the opposing players...
...have for a political foe. In 1928 he delivered Mississippi to Al Smith 5-to-1, "me a Baptist, a dry and a Ku Klux Klansman," largely by this stratagem: In a Memphis burlesque theatre he announced that during the 1927 flood Herbert Hoover got off a train at Mound Bayou, Miss. and danced on the station platform with a Negro woman. George Akerson, Hoover's aide-de-camp, had a hard time refuting this canard without offending either white or black voters. "It was just like asking old High-Collar Herbert if he had quit beating his wife...