Word: started
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bulletins continued to conflict as to just when the Beaver Man would start westward to bow from train platforms, see the President, have his triumph at Palo Alto, accept the nomination...
Violence. To open a political convention there must be a temporary chairman, who makes an oration to start things going. This orator must choose a subject upon which the convention holds a unanimous opinion. A "keynote" speech, therefore, is by definition a solemn prating about undisputed things. The more vague or remote the subject upon which the audience agrees, the nearer to the brink of absurdity will the orator totter in his effort to be impressive. So it was with Keynoter Fess at Kansas City, who sounded crass and flatulent on the vague topic of Republican Prosperity...
...Hudson. The way experts figured it out, either Columbia or California had to win. But when, at Poughkeepsie, a gun went off and seven crews splashed in a racing start, it was Cornell that jumped out in front. Down the river, wide and grey, covered with launches, canoes, yachts, ferryboats, the boats moved from Krums Elbow toward the bridge that rose, a web of iron, in the mist. At the mile and a half, Cornell had more than a length on the others. At two and a half miles, Cornell was rowed out and Columbia was leading California...
...Crimson baseball team opened its season with a row of victories which led followers of Harvard sports to hope for a championship outfit. Yale, on the other hand, made a very, unimpressive start, and the Blue nine was considered the weakest seen in New Haven in many years. Along in the middle of the season, however, all the speculations on both combinations were upset. It became evident that Harvard certainly did not have an aggregation of championship caliber, and it was equally clear that the Eli diamond strength had been greatly underestimated...
...Barbee '28 will start on the mound for Harvard. The Crimson ace has always found the going rougher in a Yale series than in any other games of the season, but if he has a good day, the Elis should be kept well in check. F. B. Cutts '28, who has always pitched his best ball against Yale in a relief role, should be able to put to good advantage the large amount of experience he has gained this seasons if he is called upon this afternoon. Howard Whitmore '29, is a third pitcher who deserves to rank with Barbee...