Word: six
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editor of his father's World's Work. From Canada. Regretfully last week President Hoover accepted the resignation of William Phillips, first U. S. Minister to Canada. Minister Phillips' excuse was better than most: to bring up his children in the U. S. Twenty-six years in foreign service had made him one of the State Department's most valued diplomats. He had served as Undersecretary of State under Charles Evans Hughes and was U. S. Ambassador to Belgium before stepping down to ministerial grade to accept the more important post at Ottawa. Deeply concerned...
After midnight one night last week, three cars sped up to the gate of the high-walled U. S. Naval Base in Brooklyn, N. Y., where are stored the Atlantic fleet's supplies. Out leaped six men. A guard felt the tickly touch of revolver muzzles, swung open the gate. Into the wide Naval Depot yard swept the cars. The guard was forced to unlock the door of the eight-story main building. Then the raiders trussed him up, plastered his mouth with adhesive tape, locked him in the Depot detention...
...prove anything on a basis of comparative scores. What is probably the weakest college team in the whole country, Delaware, was taken as a starter in a little laboratory experiment the other day. Delaware has lost six games and tied one out of seven attempts and has succeeded in counting only two touchdowns all told. If you can find a worse record, why perform your own test and prove the above thesis even more conclusively...
...total number of 47 games played between the Crimson and Blue rivals, Yale has emerged victorious from no less than 27 while Harvard has succeeded in only 14. Six encounters have resulted in ties...
...wonder Firpo Greene postponed the taking of the Yale Football picture for six weeks after the game in the event of the non-return of the old fence. Without some sort of support it would certainly be at least six weeks before the team could stand up for a picture after the results of this afternoon's contest...