Word: season
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman have been rowing twice a day since Wednesday in preparation for a hard season. The three cornered race last Saturday was a walk away for the Red crew, stroked by A. H. Parker '32. The winners gave their two rivals a length's handicap, but ended a full three lengths ahead...
...record of three victories, one defeat, and one tie was hung up by the Crimson baseball forces in their initial week of action. Cold weather caused the cancellation of the games with Boston University which was scheduled to usher in the season, and with Georgetown on the Southern trip. William and Mary, Richmond, and Catholic University were the victims of the Harvard singers while the Quantico Marines repeated their 1928 performance by handing Coach Mitchell's charges their first setback of the season. The game with Columbia on Saturday was called at the end of the ninth frame with...
...team batted for the high early-season average of 253, with Prior who garnered a 444 average, the leading individual slugger...
...survey of the 1929 Major League baseball season...
Just 100 years ago this season, Washington society was convulsed by the celebrated Peggy O'Neill Eaton case. While the details of the Eaton and Gann cases are not similar, analogies between them have been drawn. Peggy O'Neill was the daughter of a Washington innkeeper. She was pretty and pert-and sharp-tongued as any barmaid. Andrew Jackson put up at the O'Neill tavern with his Tennessee friend, John H. Eaton. In January, 1829, Eaton married Peggy. On March 4, Jackson became President and appointed Eaton his Secretary of War. Washington society turned fiercely upon...