Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teams tour the country, though there are no professional leagues. In a college tournament held while the Chicago men were there, Pitcher Yuaso of Meiji College held Chicago to two 0 to 0 games, pitching three contests in three days, resting two days, then pitching three more in a row, for four wins. In the last game that the Meiji men took from Chicago, two of their batters poled home runs, Chicago poling none. In Tokyo, two English newspapers and one Japanese published extras after the games, wiring inning-by-inning reports all over the country. Waseda University, frequently...
...Such a row of dead republics (for Italy and Spain are really that) is startling to the votaries of government by the people. In these southern lands, popularly elected representatives are apparently incapable of wrestling with the problem of a critical period. Latin temperaments are ill-fitted to serve the causes of democracy. The political machinery of Mediterranean capitals grinds much less easily without the lubrication of fear, or admiration, to drive it forward. It is hard for the American, accustomed to a Congress, plodding undisturbed, to picture the torments of a Republican government in Southern Europe with...
...Geneseo and farming; then went down to the Panhandle of Texas and ran a ranch there for a few years. In 1902 he married Alice Hay, daughter of John Hay, the Secretary of State. Back in New York, he was elected to the Legislature for seven years in a row, the last five of which he served as Speaker. In 1914 he ran for the Senate, defeating James W. Gerard and Bainbridge Colby. He has been in the Senate ever since...
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From the depths of the U-19 a collapsible canvas rowboat was produced. The tall gaunt man and two Irish companions stepped into it and commenced to row ashore. The commander of the submarine called after them, "Sir Roger Casement! Is there nothing more that you require...