Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Mitchell started the same in field, Prior at first, F. F. Nugent '29 a second. McGrath at short, and E. G. Douaghy '29 at third in every encounter, and the outfield combination was altered but slightly throughout the trip B. B. Barrett '31 and Tickner were fixtures in center and left field respectively, with E. R. Todd '29 and Gilligan alternating in the remaining outer berth. J. D. Dudley '31 was behind the bat, occasionally relieved by S. L. Batchelder...
...President Hoover last week put his first message to Congress in shape for the Public Printer. It is short, written mostly in the evenings of the last month. It recommends action on only two legislative subjects : Farm Relief, Tariff Revision...
...speed of 93.123 m. p. h. The achievement broke two world's records: the salt water mark of 80.567 miles, set by the same man, and the fresh water mark of 92.834 set by his brother last summer in Detroit. The man was Garfield Wood, Gar Wood for short, and this was his answer to the disappointing race of a fortnight ago, won on points by the British speedfiend and automobile racer Henry O'Neil Dehane Segrave in a leaky boat at 61 m. p. h. With his record hung up, Gar Wood stepped out of his boat...
...have done more work during the past year than ever before. I have written a novel, short stories and several essays. It is true, I believe, that being unable to see is a great aid to concentration. You are not distracted by outside elements...
...period of American development that is best illuminated by the highlights of Ford's career. The result is a logical piece of writing, efficient in its grasp of factual detail, but devoid of any great inspiration. Perhaps the subject matter is too familiar; perhaps the perspective too short. Unheralded by newspaper publicity, the first of the highlights were the successive experiments in mechanics that culminated in the historic Lizzy, Model T. For five years Model T was turned out of the Dearborn factory with increasingly unbelievable speed till it became "a landmark on the national scene as familiar...