Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Association). He began winning pennants. He attracted Tycoon Wrigley's eye. At Chicago he built carefully, and his final punch came with the acquisition of Rogers Hornsby, for whom he traded five players and considerable currency to Boston. The addition of Hornsby gives Chicago a "Murderer's Row" of batters comparable to the famed Yankee quartet of Ruth, Gehrig, Lazzeri, Koenig. The Chicago "Row" contains "Kiki" Cuyler, Hornsby, "Hack" Wilson, Riggs Stephenson. Experts everywhere predict that the Cubs will sweep through the National League. Chicago bettors are already willing to back their team in the 1929 World Series...
...troublous for Mr. Fisher. What about the rest of the score of paintings which he had employed Galleryman Young to buy for him? How could one ever be sure of the genuine? Even expert Sir Joseph Duveen, in a similar case, had proved nothing (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.). Row upon row of glistening Cadillacs, or Mr. Fisher's new and magnificent Fokker (see p.14), are logical, congenial objects of thought. But two paintings, placed side by side for comparison, may jeopardize the reason...
Only three things break into the Senator's smooting: 1) vaudeville; 2) golf; 3) the Washington Zoo. For diversion this stern man went every Friday night to Keith's Theatre to sit in the second row just behind the orchestra leader and gaze over the footlights in unsmiling delight. Great was his sorrow when the theatre closed. His golf came at the age of 63. Now from 6 to 7 a. m. he plays a round on the capital's public links, shooting 110 in straight cautious jabs. At the Washington Zoo Senator Smoot liked to poke around among...
When a linotype operator makes an error he has to complete that line of type before he can make a new line. The easiest thing for him to do is to run his fingers down the first two vertical rows of his keyboard. The result is the emergence of a line containing "etaoin shrdlu." And when the operator forgets to pluck the faulty line from the mould, "etaoin shrdlu" gets into print. So often has "etaoin shrdlu" appeared with a "Mr." prefixed, that Mr. Etaoin Shrdlu has really become a famed press personage. He has a relative who dwells...
...last meeting of the Schoolboy Rowing Association it was decided to hold the annual Schoolboy Regatta, which is sponsored by Harvard, in the Charles River Basin on Saturday June 1. The event which is open to all preparatory schools in the vicinity of Boston, is held each year to stimulate interest in schoolboy rowing. This year the race for the eights will be divided into two heats, one for private schools and the other for public schools. In the four-oared crew race, however, both divisions will row in the same heat...