Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alligators are rated as one of the strongest teams south of the Mason and Dixon line. The long trek north, however, may work a bad effect on its touted Notre Dame offensive. The Peninsula State players are used to performing in clear, warm weather and the raw New England climate, coupled with the train trip, may not be to their liking...
When you take into consideration the fact that the team made this record under a coach who was serving his first year, then you begin to understand what the latent possibilities of the Peninsula state boys really are. The particular coach in question is a certain Mr. Charles Bachman of Notre Dame fame. Like so many others of his tribe he purports to teach Rockne football, but unlike a great many others of his tribe he really seems to do it. The report is that he has equipped his team with an offense of which the great Knute himself might...
Ralph Austin Bard, partner in Bard & Co., President of C. I. C., was a three-letter man (Baseball, Basketball, Football) at Princeton (class of 1906). His club list includes Chicago, University, Attic, Industrial, Commonwealth, Exmoor, Monterey Peninsula Country (California), Mountain Lake (Florida). Other C. I. C. men include James B. Forgan Jr., of the famed Scotch banking family, vice president of Chicago's First National; Alfred Ernest Hamill, of Hathaway & Co. (commercial paper), also of Scotch-Irish banking ancestry; William H. Mitchell of Mitchell, Hutchins & Co. (brokers) ; Dudley Gates, vice president of Marsh & McLennan, Inc. (insurance) ; Henry L. Hanley, executive...
...United States has, using Military aeroplanes, from Selfridge Field, Mich., and other military airports, . . . photographed, mapped and plotted for military purposes, practically every foot of the peninsula of Ontario and the settled portions of Quebec. . . . "Andrew Mellen [sic], Treasurere of the United States [sic], ... is manufacturing and has in storage terrific supplies of poison and irritating gases for military purposes. . . . "Naval armament for the immediate conversions of steel freighters in the Great Lakes into ships of war is in storage in Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and Duluth. . . . Inordinate supplies of uniforms . . . are in storage in the military posts of the United...
...England, France, Germany and Holland made observations, took photographs. Among the U. S. observers were: Swarthmore's Dr. John Anthony Miller (famed among astronomers for luck-this was his seventh eclipse and all have been clear), in Sumatra; Harvard's Prof. Harlan True Stetson, in the Malay Peninsula; Commander Chester H. J. Keppler of the U. S. Naval Observatory, at Iloilo in the Philippines. Each had a train of assistants...