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...shortstop Joe Lyford of Lowell and Charley Carr of Kirkland are two of the classiest ball players in the League. Smooth-working Carr barely gets the nod over hard-hitting Lyford for the post, but the latter is ton good a ballplayer to be omitted from the lineup. Therefore, Lyford goes over to third to edge out a fast-improving teammate, Bellboy Robin Scully, by the slimmest of margins. Scully's stickwork was weak until the last few games of the year but then he came up with a bang...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Lowell and Adams Each Place Three Men On All-House Nine | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

Sophomore southpaw Charlie Hoar, slated to get the nod from Coach Collard, is bound to have a nightmare in broad daylight when he faces Harvard's high-powered murderer's row, which boasts five .300 hitters...

Author: By Theodore R. Barnett, | Title: HARD-HITTING NINE TACKLES TERRIERS | 4/25/1939 | See Source »

...historians have edged past tall, sonorous-voiced, peg-legged Gouverneur Morris with only a furtive nod. Only biographer with nerve enough to write a friendly word of him was roughriding Teddy Roosevelt. And T. R.'s biography of Morris (1888) made little splash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Less Black | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...Esterhazys', Dr. Einstein had made diligent revisions, here deleting a spurious passage put in by an overenthusiastic conductor, there restoring an eccentric "lost" bagpipe trio, until the scores were as authentic as he could make them. After the concert, critics gave editor and performers a vigorously genial nod; so, perhaps, did Papa Haydn's harried head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Scores | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...desk and write in those great red and black law notchooks. Next came Phil who worked just as hard as Gregory, but he seemed to enjoy it a little more. He would sink deep into the armchair, suck on his pipe which was seldom lit, and nod at the thick volume propped up on his knees. Sometimes it was hard to tell if he was asleep or just reading...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

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