Word: platters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...civic sisters the country over, are dedicated to making politics "cleaner" and more reasonable, tried lately to elect a president. A Mrs. John Marshall Gallagher was a candidate. A Mrs. Hanna V. Imhof-despite gossip that she had said she would not have the presidency, even "on a silver platter"-was another...
...University of Southern California heavyweight broke his second record of the day, this time his own, when he tossed the discus 151 feet 3 3-8 inches. Gerkin and Hoffman finished close behind him in the platter sailing even. In the pole vault Barnes, Olympic and Association champion, was the cynosure of all eyes in the Stadium but he was content to qualify along with four others at the 12 foot mark...
...pull them through to victory. The home nine expects to have little trouble in keeping the light-hitting Crimson outfit from scoring, and is confident that such swatters as Fields and Tremper, in spite of Harvard's recent shut-outs, will be able to drive enough runs across the platter to assure the Quaker lads the first game of the series...
...Cutts, slightly out-pitching the 1929 mounds-men. Prior, the newly elected leader, it was who took it personally upon himself to humble the University representatives, and while his mates held the regulars to two tallies, Prior, with a double and a home run, chased three markers across the platter for Coach Davidson's outfit...
Consider the cod. Although his family is only second on the platter, he is perhaps the most valuable. Even his liver, when pressed under heat, exudes oil of great medicinal worth. And his tongue is a Parisian delicacy. Cod?a big creature?is partial to olive-green covering and is distinguished by a subtle beard at the tip of the lower jaw. The cod catch on the Newfoundland coast has not been seriously diminished...