Word: places
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nicknamed "Pudge," hefty Heffelfinger that first year trotted out on the gridiron to do what the coaches expected of him. No empty-headed bruiser, he made a place for himself in the Varsity rush-line. (In those days there were no prissy eligibility rules; a man could play from his first to his last college year?and even after.) Sweating and grunting Rusher Heffelfinger helped to roll Yale over Princeton 10 to 0. The next year his team crushed Harvard and the third year overcame Princeton again...
...Long, Long Trail," old songs of the War. The bands ceased. Into the amphitheatre marched massed choirs of London churches in cassock and cotta, at their head the sedate Bishop of Kensington, Rt. Rev. John Primatt Maud, solemn in billowing lawn sleeves, and pectoral cross. The Bishop took his place on the speakers' platform. A rocket curved up into the evening air. The Bishop of Kensington read the Lord's Prayer and a prayer for the King...
...truth is that there is no leadership of any kind in this election struggle. . . . Some of the new candidates may have a touch of inspiration, but so far they have not made themselves heard above the market place...
...army is now a true organic institution. It is my suggestion that hereafter whenever any military leader enters politics he shall first place his forces at the disposal of the government...
...fight exciting. Yet Eastern ring-watchers felt they had had a good evening last week after observing the earnest efforts of two little untitled men to knock each other out in ten rounds of fighting which looked, from the rim of the Bronx coliseum in which it took place, like a black ant and a dark-haired mosquito battering at each other...