Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read and write and spell. We have already turned over thousands of people from illiteracy to literates by this process. 3) This administration turned the State Penitentiary from an institution losing a million dollars a year, to an institution making money. 4) That over the opposition of all the Ring newspapers and all the oldtime politicians, we voted a good roads program in this State to pave the highways and build a thousand miles graveled farmers' roads every year, and we are building them of the highest type. 5) That we took the Charity Hospitals of the State...
Like the Italian Toscanini, the Russian Stokowski chose German music. Like Toscanini with his Beethoven, Stokowski has always had unseen powers over Brahms' First Symphony. Brahms then, followed by worthy excerpts from the Wagnerian Ring made of his first concert a surging translucent affair...
...There is a rule in New York that a fighter who is champion in his class must renounce his title before trying for the championship in a heavier class. Because of this rule Thomas Loughran was no longer light-heavyweight champion of the world when he climbed into a ring at the Yankee Stadium to fight Jack Sharkey (Josef Cukoschary) of Boston. In the third round Sharkey ran out of his corner and forced Loughran against the ropes and hit him high on the jaw. Loughran sat down. Five seconds later he got up and began to walk along...
...Story. The author's father, who was estranged from her grandfather, was a great athlete and a Colonel of the Blues. Once he jumped a horse over a glittering banquet table and never stirred a saucer. Once he rode a bull around a ring in Spain. Upon the death of her grandfather, Viscount Maynard, the author's newly widowed mother went to hear the will read. Surprisingly, Frances was named the heiress. The other relatives present slung pats of butter at grandfather's portrait...
...rumor which was being circuited by a famous baseball betting ring around the Stadium after Saturday's game to the effect the Dr. Huey, CRIMSON prognosticator, had been kidnapped, is entirely unfounded. The oriental sage was discovered in the statement of a Mt. Auburn St. laundry establishment after an anxious night on the part of the various search parties which were immediately formed when the rumor commenced its rapid spread Saturday evening. the doctor's condition was excellent and he seemed inclined to talk about the impending World's Series which starts in Chicago tomorrow. He intimated that...