Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Issue of July 29 contains a rather grating error on p. 21 second line under the third mention of the name STIMMING. "Mein herren"' is very poor. It should be "Meine Herren." Nouns are always capitalized no matter where they occur. "Mein" is singular but must agree with the plural of the modified noun in number, "Herren." You are giving yourself repeated boxes on the ears with such expressions...
They were only making exploratory incisions, preparing the way. Certain of these cuts would be allowed to heal. In about a month there would be a second, final operation, and the prostate would be cut cleanly...
Waiting at sheltered Riccione on the Adriatic seaside were Donna Rachele Mussolini and 22-month-old Babe Romano, indisputably Il Duce's favorite son, often called by him "the first child of my second series." Waiting also was a spandy new speedboat. So far as observers could see, the birthday celebration proper was in two parts: 1) Donna Rachele sat placidly on the beach; 2) Dictator Benito and Babe Romano went out morning and afternoon in the speedboat, dashed thrillingly through spume-flecked waves...
With the cup at stake, young Player Lott played hard and headily. He took ten games from Cochet, including the second set at 6-3. But his brilliant shots were mixed too much with just-misses. His backhand was specially spotty. He let Cochet have the next-to-last...
...Guest was once a Meadow Lark. Some, and perhaps all of the present Old Aikens will doubtless become Internationalists. "Schooling" for polo means learning horsemanship with and without a mallet. It means, as taught by Mrs. Hitchcock, even beginning on foot, to learn the rudiments of team play. The second step is bicycle polo, then ponies. Thus may able poloists be developed young. The Old Aikens still average under voting age. Their captain's mother, Mrs. D. Stewart Iglehart Sr., started another preliminary school five years ago at old Westbury called the Sparrowhawks, composed of famed players' young...