Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which captured the honors in 1922 and 1923, is Harvard's most dangerous opponent in the coming event with such runners as Bell, who made a remarkable showing last year when he won the Freshman race; Gottlieb, conqueror of Nurmi in a handicap test last winter; and James Loucks. Pittsburgh, with only Corbett and Howell of its last year's victorious five available, appears to have little chance...
...York City Boston, Mass. South Bend, Ind. Buffalo, N. Y. Scranton," Pa. Indianapolis, Ind. Albany, N. Y. Ft. Wayne, Ind.* Cambridge, Mass. Evansville, Ind. Lafayette, Ind. Louisville, Ky. Kansas City, Mo* Rochester, N. Y. Syracuse, N. Y.* Detroit, Mich.* New Haven, Conn. Pittsburgh, Pa. Bridgeport, Conn...
...blocked kick in the last quarter gave Pittsburgh's sloppy team a victory after it had been badly outplayed all afternoon by Washington and Jefferson. Score: Pittsburgh 6, Washington and Jefferson 0. Not many people are conscious, perhaps, that the initials D. & E., ki-yi-ing in the tassel of a cheer, stand for Davis and Elkins, a college in West Virginia. Army Cadets last week heard those initials screeched at them by the supporters of a team which they barely managed to edge...
When that aged Pittsburgh viveur, Harry K. Thaw, feeling in his veins the thrill of a new spring, went to Manhattan and began to conduct himself in a manner that ill benefitted his grey hairs (TIME, Sept. 28), the New York Daily Mirror "crusaded" against him, asking, "Why is a rich lunatic a free lunatic?" Some of the Mirror's chicle-masticating readers may have thought it a breach of taste, a blatancy, to make so much of the fact that an old rake wanted to chuck a dancing girl under the chin. Little did these readers know...
...last week attention was shifted to farther out on the island, when the Phipps Estates- of which Henry Phipps, Pittsburgh steel man, former colleague of Carnegie, is the leading figure-bought 3,000 acres in Suffolk County with several miles of frontage on the Atlantic Ocean and Shinnecock Bay. The Phipps estates have also an option on another large tract. A month ago Carl G. Fisher, Miami real estate man, bought 9,-000 acres near Montauk Point. And Otto H. Kahn last week leased for 15 years, with option to purchase, 678 acres at Easthampton -for purposes unmentioned. Shore property...