Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barbee '28 is still unable to work, owing to an injured shoulder. Howard Whitmore '29 is slated to take the mound in the Brown contest tomorrow. E. R. Todd '29, who has been playing with the Seconds, went up to the first squad and may cover the right field region. Besides Todd, who also plays first base, J. S. Cunningham '29, pitcher, A. L. Devens '30, outfielder, and W. L. Elkins '29, second baseman, were sent up for the rest of the season...
...among the caverns of the mountains. ... If it weren't for the newspapers in the U. S. nobody much would know about Sandino. . . . People can't understand why 4,000 marines can't catch him quickly . . . but a fugitive might escape capture for a long time right in New York or Chicago...
...spring of 1778, after George Washington had moved his troops out of Valley Forge, that noble eccentrician, Governor John Hancock, put his bold signature on the last bill passed by the Provincial Court of Massachusetts. The bill gave young Samuel Phillips Jr. the right to open a school for boys at Andover, Mass. Horseman Paul Revere designed a silver seal (finis origine pendet) for the school; and 13 boys began to study under Eliphat Pearson, whom they dubbed "Elephant." In 1789, President George Washington came to Andover to make a speech; later eight of his nephews and grandnephews went...
Wright, now producing 100 motors a month, also announced the second melon* of the U. S. aviation industry. It offered holders of five shares the right to buy one new share at $100. With Wright stock selling at $214 on one afternoon last week, each right was worth some $19. With 250,000 shares of Wright stock outstanding, the melon has a paper value of some $4,750,000. So stimulated, Wright stock jumped to $245, but closed the week at $202.50. On the day before Col. Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, this stock could have been bought...
Gaunt from wretched diet, toothless from scurvy, the cynical oldsters were right that escape was not so certain. Six weary years dragged themselves out: lumberjacking or road-building under armed guards, restless hours in prison, philosophising, swearing, gambling for "mômes," the girlish boys who were possessed by carnal strongmen. With luck bits of wood could be stolen and carved into salable boxes, or penny errands might be run for the slave-drivers, and bit by tarnished bit the price of attempt at freedom could be bought. Five hundred francs would bribe a bushman to paddle one convict across...