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...seemed that the old manager's patience was about to reap its reward; that he would once again assume the enjoyable role of pennant winner. His youngsters, however, proved not quite stanch enough to turn the trick; finished second to the world champion Washington Senators. Last year they were again good without being quite good enough, ended third from the top. Experts liked their 1927 chances...
...Bingham, Utah, a stanch steel cable furnishes trackage for the aerial tramway that connects the Utah Delaware Co.'s reducing plant with the mines. Last week as a high wind shrilled and blew, one Glen Higley, miner, rode the tram bucket. The cable thrummed; the slowly traveling bucket creaked and groaned as it swayed 200 feet above ground. Miner Higley felt frolicsome, peered over the edge. A bellows-gust of wind struck the swaying bucket neatly and pitched him out. Because he lit in a snow drift he will live...
...Penn game sung around, the football world suddenly woke to the fact that the unbeatable had been beaten. Every time the famous play started the Harvard ends and tackles charged around at the right moment and transferred the plunging, tearing human wedge into a keystone tightly jammed between two stanch supports Thus the line-crashing guard, Hare of Penn, was deprived of his powerful backing, and with the centre reenforced, he was easily stopped...
...story of primitive disagreements. The Moros of the south?tall, fearless, ignorant, stanch in their faith that there is but one God, Allah, and that Mohammed is his prophet?despise the little "paternoster-saying natives [of the northern islands] who genuflect to this saint's fingernail and that saint's shinbone." As it happens, although the Moros generally get along amicably with General Wood and the whites, they are forever getting into trouble with the constabulary and lesser officials, who are nearly all Christian natives. The big Moslems and the little Christians are always stepping each on the other...
When another, Dr. J. Frank Norris of Fort Worth, Texas, a stanch American, cried, "we want Rockefeller to keep his bloody money," the Bible Unionists applauded. Yet in the larger convention the vote was cast and for the next twelvemonth Mr. Rockefeller and the other modernists may pass their way before the contemning eyes of the fundamentalists...