Word: pivoting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sent into the game at short stop in the seventh frame, and G. E. Donaghy '29 was shifted to third, replacing A. G. Whitney '29. This combination turned out extraordinarily well. Nugent seems to have a flair for double plays, for the Sophomore player started two and served as pivot in a third in the last three innings...
...Honor System, which has lately been the pivot of a small tempest at Yale, is now on the lap of the gods. The Student Council is weary of thanklessly juggling the university's morals and has sought deliverance from its travails. The Faculty shows no enthusiasm for a return to Faculty supervision in the sense of watching for cribbers, but will not tolerate a total absence of regulation. Finally, the undergraduates themselves have arrived at a state of general apathy concerning the issue...
...Pivot Point. Roman Catholics still loudly protest the injustices done to their brethren in Mexico, but U. S. financial interests there became quietly expectant, recently, when it was found that Mexican tax revenues were falling below a point at which Señor Calles could meet the payments due to Manhattan bankers on the Mexican national debt...
That point-money, dollars, pesos-is the pivot around which President Calles has swung away from Mexican ideals of retroactive confiscation and toward U. S. ideals of justice for U. S. interests in Mexico. Once justice was done, once Lower Manhattan was appeased, it would be possible to tide over the Mexican debt payments...
Dudley Bell of Waltham, the newly-elected Second Marshal, prepared at Exeter. He was vice-president of his class and captain of the 1928 football team in his Freshman year. Last year he was substitute center and this year held the pivot position regularly throughout the season. John Newton Barbee, Jr., of Chicago, III., the third Marshal, entered the University from the Carl Schurz High School in Chicago. For two years Barbee has been pitcher in the baseball lineup and center or guard in the basketball team, of which he is captain this year. He held the presidency...