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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...veterans have been placed together on the team which has been under the direction of E. T. Putnam '29, experienced pilot of last season. In the backfield are S. L. Batchelder '31, valuable auxiliary back of last year, A. W. Huguley '31, letterman and stellar defenseman, and W. R. Harper '30, two-time letterman and reckoned the best plunging back of the present team. Just how this combination, experienced and tried as it is, is to be bettered without at least a game or so for a basis of judgement, is the problem which at present leads the experts...
...Rooster" Creager who, with Boss Baker, seemed to rule the Hidalgo roost. In his subsequent history, Writer White said: "It's right there [Hidalgo County] . . . that our two most stylish American breakfast foods, GRAFT and GRAPEFRUIT . . . have been brought to their very highest and juiciest state of perfection. . . . R. B. Creager . . . for reasons best known to himself, has always encouraged the DEFEAT of his own party in Hidalgo county. . . Will the Texas Tammany boys, supported by the illiterate, non-taxpaying Mexican voters, and their loyal Republican friend, Hon. R. B. Creager, be able to hold their jobs and thus continue...
Over the Solent spithead, thread of English Channel between the Isle of Wight and Hampshire, three Englishmen and three Italians raced for a new world's air speed record last week. Contestants: H. R. D. ("Daisy") Waghorn, 25; R. L. R. Atcherly, 25; d'Arcy Grieg, 29; Giovanni Monti, 29; Rema Cadringher, 26; Tomaso dal Molin, 27. Lining Solent spithead were at least 1,000,000 spectators -the Prince of Wales on a yacht with his crony, rich Philip Sassoon, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald with foreign ambassadors on the aircraft carrier Argus. Absent from race and show...
Last week came news that he had been offered by a Mrs. R. B. Stevenson of El Paso, Tex., both tuition and board at M. I. T., where he had really wanted to go. Said he: "It would be foolish of me to refuse. . . . I shall notify the Edison Co. to that effect. . . ." Thus it came to pass that the Brightest Boy in the U. S.- Wilber Brotherton Huston of Olympia, Wash., winner of the Edison contest-will have as his classmate and scholarly competitor one of the Second Brightest Boys. When they emerge from M. I. T. four years...
...Michigan's State Prison two keepers were R. Irving Latimer's obstacles. He poisoned them...