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Word: staffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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After two weeks of hard practice in the new Le Baron Russell Briggs baseball cage Coach F. G. Mitchell has pronounced the University baseball squad ready to take part in practice contests, beginning next week. The pitching staff has been rapidly rounding into shape, and yesterday for the first time this season the pitchers began to curve the ball. As a result the batting, which has been hard and continuous to date, fell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRACTICE GAMES WILL ENGAGE NINE | 3/9/1928 | See Source »

...they bring on the staff of Yard Police we cannot be responsible for the results," said Dean Donham. "Our plans at present simply call for an old fashioned walkout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUSINESS SCHOOL PROFESSORS STRIKE | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

...said that the present staff of Yard Cops would not retire with him, but since they were ageing fast would be retained for sentiment's sake

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BELOVED REGENT GIVES UP POST | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

...that the Court had said, in clumsy, Naval fashion, was that whereas experts had been on hand with good plans and execution, their virtue was not shared by their commander, Rear Admiral Brumby. By good staff work rather than good commanding had that little been done which was done. When the busy pro-Brumbians professed incomprehension of the court's sentence: "He had not the familiarity with the essential details of construction of submarines and the knowledge of rescue vessels, and the knowledge of the actual work being carried on by his subordinates necessary to direct intelligently the important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Again, S-4 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...long sort, of job, as the Interstate Commerce Commission learned later. The road did not pay. Colonel Green established himself at Terrell, became a prominent figure in Texan Republican politics. It is still repeated in Texas that Mark Hanna himself put him on the governor's military staff, which made Capitalist Green of Manhattan a Texan Colonel. The Colonel paid the railroad's deficit regularly every year. It was his plaything. Last week the Southern Pacific bought Texas Midland, adding 125 miles to 16,601 miles. Colonel Green received $2,500,000 cash. The Interstate Commerce Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mother & Son | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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