Word: started
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Mitchell will send Howard Whitmore '29 after today's tilt. He held Dartmouth to eight hits in Friday's eleven inning clash. The Harvard mentor was uncertain at a late hour last night whether to start B. H. Ticknor '31, one of the Crimson's leading extra-base sluggers, or E. R. Todd '29, whose stellar hitting featured the game with the Bruins, in the centerfield post...
...Farm Bill. Many a Republican leader felt that the Debenture Plan affected revenue, and therefore invaded the House's constitutional prerogative to initiate this kind of legislation. But the Farm issue temporarily overtopped the Constitution. Chairman Snell of the House Rules Committee put it thus: "If we should start some Constitutional argument here, the people wouldn't understand and we couldn't make them understand. They want Farm Relief and they want it at once." Chairman Snell therefore prepared a rule to receive the Farm Bill from the Senate and send it to conference with this proviso...
...enough to reveal his solution of an ancient political problem. To run Republican campaigns "without resorting to empty promises or breaths of scandal" Dr. Work will remove his activities from Washington, population centre of politicians, and occupy rented offices in Denver (his home). From these he is prepared to start the Hoover second-term movement at once...
...Clyde Van Dusen, his trainer, nearly wept when he saw him come in. His owner, Broom Manufacturer Herbert P. Gardner, did not watch him because he was afraid of the excitement. His jockey, Linus ("Pony") McAtee, who won the 1927 Derby on Whiskery, said "I knew it from the start." More than 60,000 people watched the race, All of them got wet, but the cheers which greeted the gelding when two men staggered toward him with a flower horseshoe, seemed to stop the rain...
...reach Cuers-Pierrefeu. He succeeded. A company of Senegalese troops pulled the ship to earth and walked her into the hangar. Passengers, weary, pretended unconcern over their dangers. Most of them declared that they would wait until the ship's motors were replaced and she would start again for the U. S. That, it was apparent, would not be for several weeks...