Word: standings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rooms stand now, traces renfain of much that transpired within them. On the inside of a closet door there is a painting, reported as the work of F. D. Merritt, who lived in the rooms at one time, and later was commissioned by the University to make the portrait of Sopbocles, the eminent Greek professor, which now hangs in the faculty room in University Hall. Men who lived in the rooms 50 years ago have told of a painting in the same room, reputed to have extended all around the walls near the floor, in which the faculty members...
...duped, but it made no difference. He was led out into the sunshine, nonchalantly gallant. A large crowd gathered to see his end and more than 1,000 troops were assembled to do him a last gruesome honor. He was marched to a pile of stones and ordered to stand with his back to it. But this did not suit him and he elected to be shot with his back to a wall...
...throw to the plate which failed to put out a runner coming in from third base. After these various misadventures, the Pittsburgh pitcher weakened and the New York club, by hard hitting, ran up their big score. CE The Pirates saved the most damaging error for their last hopeless stand. With three games already lost, they rallied to save themselves from the humiliation of four successive defeats and came into the ninth inning with the score tied at 3 to 3. This despite another home-run by Hitter Ruth. Batting in the ninth, the Yankees put three men on base...
...away. A second tragedy has been produced in Hollywood this year and it bids fair to be a success. So far no one but Emil Jannings had been intrusted with a movie tragedy in this country, and for a time it seemed that he would stand unchallenged in his field. In spite of many imperfections in the senario, the directing and the filming, one can do much worse than spend an evening watching Miss Talmadge in some of her most seducing moments...
Since Judge Elbert H. Gary's death (TIME, Aug. 22) no one until last week had spoken as he did for the U. S. Steel Corp. He would rarely, except for politic reasons, let anyone else stand as spokeman for the corporation. Then came a meeting of the board of directors and potent finance committee, and there was melancholy necessity for a presiding officer for each. The duty, in both cases, fell to the corporation's president, practical Steelmaker James Augustine Farrell. His post-meeting statement, optimistic as most of Judge Gary's had been, was: ". . . Improvement...