Word: near
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...election day draws near and the straw votes pile up, the business of picking the winner becomes more active. According to the Literary Digest poll, which furnishes the most impressive returns, Hoover has a majority in 44 states with 488 electoral votes, while Smith has only 4 states with 43 votes. Already Republicans are claiming that it is all over but the shouting...
...scored two touchdowns himself, heaved a pass to S. C. Burns '30 for a third and kicked all three extra points. But not content with doing most of his own team's scoring, Putnam also was responsible for the lone scrub touchdown when he muffed a punt near his own goal line. The ball rolled across where a scrub lineman fell...
Guides for the cavern region of the Lost River Reservation in New Hampshire have been used by the Forestry department for nearly six years. Life guards and unusually strong students to help in carrying invalids in hospitals are supplied through the office. One of the steady demands is for donors in blood transfusions at hospitals near Cambridge...
Henry Ford himself drove a new Ford sedan 60 m.p.h. for 8,000 feet, last week, to celebrate the opening of a new stretch of road near Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Mass. On the day before, Mrs. Henry Ford had made a speech before the Women's National Farm & Garden Association,* characterizing her husband as "easy going." She also said that he had purchased Wayside Inn to save it from becoming "a common roadhouse...
John Pierpont Morgan might well have said last week: "A reckless liar named Bernard F. Champayne, posing as my grandson, obtained $15,000 from Mrs. B. P. Fields of Ginter Park near Richmond, Va., and became engaged to her daughter. Liar Champayne was sentenced last week to serve ten years in a common jail...