Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emperor made a point of appearing at all public functions, where he was received with honor. The best restaurants dined him and his dogs Bummer and Lazarus free. He rode as an honored guest on coastwise steamship lines, at tended in a front row seat all sessions of the Legislature at Sacramento. Few were heartless enough to ridicule him. When a shopkeeper hung a caricature of him in his window, Norton I smashed it with impunity. His decrees, one of which directed the erection of a bridge from Oakland to Yerba Buena Island which was begun 63 years later under...
...tried to make up that deficiency by purchasing aging Dazzy Vance from the League's tail-enders, the Cincinnati Reds. The Pittsburgh Pirates and the Boston Braves were still in striking position behind the Cardinals. Brooklyn, which last week won its first game after losing eight in a row, and the Philadelphia Phillies, who have good batters but poor pitchers, were almost bracketed together, a notch ahead of Cincinnati...
Like most baseballers, he has superstitions of his own. He thinks his pitching is hoodooed after he has won his first twelve games. Fortnight ago, after winning twelve in a row, he lost a game against the Cleveland Indians, which dropped the Yankees temporarily into second place. In his next appearance, the Chicago White Sox knocked him out of the box in the ninth. Last week, against the Boston Red Sox, Pitcher Gomez finally won his 13th game- the one which insured the Yankees first place on July...
...first time and lost to Vanitie while Rainbow was again beating Weetamoe. For the third race, there was a light breeze. Over 30 miles, windward and leeward from Brenton's Reef Lightship to a buoy off Block Island and back, Rainbow won for the third time in a row while Yankee, considered a slow boat in calm weather, surprised the committee by running away from Weetamoe...
...ordinary university proctor walked into some University of Chicago examination rooms one day last week his first impulse would have been to cry "Un-fair!", to throw every student out for flagrant cheating. Row on row sat students with question sheets before them. But instead of scratching their heads and staring desperately out windows nearly every one was busily thumbing through textbooks and lecture notes...