Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toils for Springfield, Ullman, who bats from the starboard side of the plate is sure to get the call, but with Springfield offering a right-hander, Chase, in spite of Ullman's brilliant fielding against Amherst, may be sent in to bat from the first base side of the rubber. Neither of these men has shown much prowess with the stick, but Coach Mitchell is stressing hitting in his practice sessions and the whole nine should show improvement along this line before long...
Either Ketchum or Malloy will toe the rubber against the schoolboys, Coach Davidson announced last night. Both these men worked against the University team recently and succeeded in downing the pick-up nine that Coach Mitchell sent against the Freshmen. The final score of the melee was 3 to 2, the University pitchers, Booth and Cutts, slightly out-pitching the 1929 mounds-men. Prior, the newly elected leader, it was who took it personally upon himself to humble the University representatives, and while his mates held the regulars to two tallies, Prior, with a double and a home run, chased...
...office. Each desired a license to fast publicly in a glass case. Each hoped to break the 44-day German professional fasting record, now held by one Herr Jolly. Simultaneously came a wire from Leipzic with the news that a local faster had been caught sucking nourishment through a rubber tube on the 26th day of his fast...
...practically nobody wanted to hold the Philippines except as a grandiose assumption of ? "the white man's burden." Now, wise business interests see in the Philippines great prospect of national wealth. Rubber perhaps will grow there. Not only so, but 50 or 100 years hence the U. S. may need to import food, and food can be abundantly produced in the Philippines. Vast hills of minerals are also reputed to be lying there untouched. In short, the Philippine question is no longer purely academic...
...being cheap politics; it was designed, said he, solely to remove Mr. Thompson from Ohio politics where there are several Republican candidates for Governor. Satire having failed to produce heat, the Senator intimated that Mr. Thompson might be inclined to interest himself in the exploitation of the island (rubber, etc.) rather than in the welfare of the islanders. Here Senator Moses of New Hampshire quietly remarked that, if Senator Harrison was so interested in "the little brown man of the Philippines," he might also propose an investigation into the conditions of "the little black man in Mississippi...