Word: somes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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If an old New England town-crier cried false reports, he would be placed in a ducking stool, soused again and again to the applause of those whom he had gulled. Last week many a person in Manhattan chuckled at the thought that perhaps Town Crier Alexander (''The...
That college football has developed from a form of organized, spirited roughhouse to a vast national business is a fact that has long been obvious but seldom analyzed. Last week a journalist named Francis Wallace published some figures in The Saturday Evening Post. He showed that football's drawing...
¶At Syracuse at about 8:30 in the evening, Warren Stevens ran three times past rows of floodlights that gave the field a blueish tinge to make touchdowns against Hobart. Used successfully in the west for some time, the floodlights proved that many potential gloaters who like to play...
¶With one flashy sophomore halfback yipping for passes that usually landed safely in the arms of some other flashy sophomore halfback, in the same kind of sweater, Washington hardly needed Jefferson to beat Ohio Northern, 33-0.
Among the professional tennis players who gathered for their championship last week at Forest Hills, L. I., were many whose jobs at country clubs keep them teaching children and patting easy serves across to elderly ladies who want to reduce-keep them, in short, from ever getting a decent match...