Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other veterans in this boat. Crew Y, with the exception of Sutherland at number six, is composed of members of last year's Freshman squad, and with W. L. Rice '27 at stroke is attracting Coach Steven's attention. Crew Z is made up of men, many of whom saw service on the second University eight last year. This crew promises to furnish spirited opposition later in the fall in the sprints with other boats...
...encountered the hold-up man in the entry as he was entering his room at about 8 o'clock last night. The man pointed a gun at the Law Student, and asked for all that he had. At first Selden thought the matter a joke but when he saw the gun he decided otherwise. The robber then grabbed Selden's gold watch and chain, fired at him, and disappeared around the corner of the building...
...they found at the end of their pilgrimage was insignificant beside the physical equipment that their own universities offered in the same field. They found that the great teacher, whose name was familiar in every American university, had practically no real physical equipment at all at his disposal. They saw him accept, with as good grace as possible, dingy rooms here or there which the corporation appeared to have no other use for, first in Dane Hall, then in Massachusetts Hall. When the corporation decided that it needed Massachusetts for other purposes. It apparently made no provision...
...lordship paid a sudden visit to Manhattan. At the Julia Richman High School, girls cheered him; at the Museum of Natural History, where he saw dodos and dinosaurs, the officials and guides recognized him. Leaving the Times Annex, chorus girls cheered him from the windows of their dressing room in the Apollo Theatre. On his way to the Herald-Tribune offices he was pointed out by the inimitable Will Rogers to a bevy of Ziegfeld Follies beauties who immediately broke into raucous cheers...
Pacific-their perils past, their proud adventure done. Three weeks ago, when the fliers arrived in Manhattan, James W. Wadsworth, senior U. S. Senator from New York, said: "At Boston, you saw thousands upon thousands of your fellow-countrymen thronging the streets and filling the open space in the centre of the old town so famous in the annals of the Republic-Boston Common. Your fellow-citizens indicated to you very clearly the quality of the emotions which fill the hearts of Americans today. You may have been stunned at the extent of that reception, as you may be with...