Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reads Dickens' Christmas Carol to Upper Formers, who crowd the window seat and fender rail of his booklined study. "Old Boys" * fondly recall his habit of snorting humorously through his nose, his ceaseless jiggling of his Phi Beta Kappa key. Of his five sons, most spectacular is the second-eldest, Sigourney Thayer, World War aviator, Paris habitue, theatre tyro, husband of Emily Davies Vanderbilt...
Coach Rockne's phlebitis (congested legs) grew worse and kept him at home, but the 34 members of his big squad switched places in the game as if he had been there, scored three touchdowns in the second period, another in the third, to bag Northwestern's Wildcats...
Wertz and Franz of Ohio Wesleyan, with a good line giving them time to get away, kept the Army's second stringers grunting on the Army goal-line for two periods. Cagle and Murrell had to stretch themselves when they got in. Army's 19 to 6 was really closer...
Frosty Peters and the other Illini chinned themselves into second place in the Big Ten by taking Ohio State...
...Second Empire fell, young Dr. Clemenceau?for like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather he was an M.D.?seized every toehold to scramble up in the third republic. Poor patients helped to get their medico chosen Mayor of disreputable Montmartre, later a deputy to the National Assembly. In 1880 he founded La Justice, first of the string of Clemenceau news sheets which really made his fame. As leader of the extreme left radicals he became "the wrecker of cabinets"?is said to have clawed down 18 prime ministers...