Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...schoolboys have a weak team this year, having been blanked by Browne and Nichols and by Cambridge Latin, and having just escaped from a shut-out at the hands of Middlesex School on Monday...
...been considered first by the college officials under whom they have worked, and each man will have been interviewed probably by the Scholarship Committee of his own college. Each application will be stamped with the rating of the college from which the candidate comes. And yet we do not shut out candidates who wish to send their applications directly to the Foundation. Men who are not college graduates and college graduates who do not ask for the official recommendation of their college may apply directly...
...underlying reason for the existent chaos is the abortive attempt on the part of a group of politicians to combine ward politics and banking methods. The preponderance of the directorates of banks which have been shut by order of the commissioner has been composed of public office-holders and their friends, unacquainted with right banking methods and appealing to face prejudice and class distinction. A definite drive has been made against the conservative methods of substantial institutions; wild accusations have been bandied about, charging that the moderate rates paid by established savings banks betokened the robbery from the poor...
...afternoon at Yale Field, New Haven, the Crimson and Blue cross bats in the initial set-to of their annual series. Both nines have, during the past week, turned in excellent exhibitions of ball playing; Yale, through high-class pitching, spectacular fielding and wide-awake work on the bases, shut out Princeton Saturday, 1-0. Twice last week the University blanked strong opponents, Felton and Goode twirling gilt-edged ball, and the team as a whole appearing to carry a powerful punch. Comparative scores denote little in collegiate baseball circles; and if they were employed in sizing up today...
...figured only as an even thing, the outcome to depend on pitching ability, and the "breaks" of the game. The University's brace against Fordham and Tufts looked all the more promising in that Felton and Goode showed their best brand of pitching throughout the season. Coxe's unexpected shut-out of the Tigers in the best game he has pitched since facing the Giants a year ago boosted Yale's pitching stock tremendously. They had been regarded as a "one-pitcher" team, due to the apparent reliability of Selleck alone, and the wildness of Kelly and Calhoun. Coxe...