Word: oneida
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oneida, now unloading at Bordeaux to bring back a commercial cargo; the Onondaga, in the Caribbean returning with 1,600,000 ft. of lumber from Seattle whither she took Fords; the East Indian being reconditioned at Chester, Pa; the Henry Ford II and Benson Ford (named after a young son of Edsel) in the neighborhood of the Sao Canal, one carrying Ford products, the other returning with a commercial cargo. All carry the "Bluebird" ensign chose by Mr. Ford himself; cf. Maeterlinck...
...college" football is said to have been "founded" by one Gerrit Smith Miller, who organized the Oneida Club, at Boston, in 1862. Rugby football, prototype of the U. S. game, was "founded" by one William Webb Ellis, a Rugby School student, in 1823. Reads a tablet on the playing field at Rugby, England: "This stone commemorates the exploit of William Webb Ellis who, with a fine disregard for the rules of football as played in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the Rugby game...
Both the Irwins started their literary careers on the West Coast, though they hied originally from Oneida, N. Y. They were part of a group of young writers which included Frank Norris and which developed under the watchful eye of that excellent editor, John O'Hara Cosgrave...