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Word: standings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game was afforded by the university when it supplied the Common room with four shiny brass ash trays, stamped H. U. Immediately the sportiest of the young athletes invented a fast game of table shuffle board. Played by teams of two, in which two men of opposing sides stand at each end off a long table, the objective is to have your two ash trays nearest the other end of the table. If one contestant can get both nearer than his opponent does, his side scores two points, if only one is ahead a single marker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Ash Trays Whirl as Smith Halls Eschew Organized Sports--Shuffle Board Men Begin Common Room Workout | 3/8/1927 | See Source »

...years ago when I cam to Harvard College, the land on which the Freshmen Halls now stand was all covered with water, and you could cross the river only at low tide," declared John Skeehan to a Crimson reporter on one of his visits to not well-known, but in dispensable Harvard employees "In 1885 the then marshy ground where the Boston Elevated power plant now sits, was sold for half a cent a foot, and I'll tell you it was a bargain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charles Flowed Over Site of Freshman Dormitories 42 Years Ago--Library Guardian Says T. R. Was Bright Fellow | 3/8/1927 | See Source »

Senator Charles Linza McNary of Oregon and Rperesentative Gilbert N. Haugen of Iowa, co-authors of "the best advertised piece of literature in modern times," were obliged to stand, in person, while impersonators chanted "The Corn Belt Is Getting On Its Ear." A verse: Don't forget it's getting late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Horseplay | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

Captain E.C. Haggerty '27, who will stand the brunt of the distance races, will have strong opposition from Cox of Penn state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAVOR CRIMSON RUNNERS TO WIN NEW YORK I. C. 4A. | 3/5/1927 | See Source »

Several other officers took the stand and were closely questioned and cross-examined about the sobriety and injuries of their prisoners, and then O.D. Ferguson took the stand, and testified that he had sat in the second seat from the aisle in the front row on the right hand side, seat A 4, and stated that he believed he had the stub at home. Under cross-examination, it developed that, although Ferguson had sat temporarily in another seat, this seat was also in the first row on the other side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIAL WITNESSES BOLSTER DEFENCE | 3/1/1927 | See Source »

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