Word: stroked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Macy & Co. (Manhattan department store), would be Republican treasurer for New York State. At the Kansas City convention, Mr. Straus offered to bet large sums at 2 to i that Hoover would carry, not merely New York State, but New York City itself against Smith. His first public stroke in his new office was to write letters to 3,600 golf clubs and ask them to close for a few hours on election...
...steelmen had been alarmed by the vigorous recovery of the German mills, which were threatening severe competition with U. S. industry. It was, therefore, no great surprise when the cryptic announcement of the export combine closely followed Mr. Farrell's return. The combine appeared as a typical Farrellian stroke in the campaign to develop the foreign market...
Like beaten puppies, the snarling folk of Broadway often cringe from the hand that is raised to stroke them. For example, Edgar B. Davis, an obscure but very wealthy operator in oil, produced a play called The .Ladder (TIME, Nov. 8, 1926), which dwelt, with confused eloquence, upon a theosophical theory of reincarnation...
Yale University Crew PositionName Class Residence Wt. Ht. Age Stroke W. R. Tappen '30 Pleasantville, N. Y. 160 5.11 21 No. 7 R. C. Durant '28 Hartford, Conn. 175 6.03 22 No. 6 W. W. Garnsey '30 Greeley, Col. 178 6.02 20 No. 5 L. W. Ladd '30 Cleveland, O. 195 6.05 20 No. 4 J. O. Rodgers '28 Pelham, N. Y. 174 6.00 21 No. 3 S. P. McCalmont '30S Franklin, Pa. 175 6.02 21 No. 2 R. E. Cushman '29 Utica, N. Y. 167 6.02 22 Bow B. W. Taylor '28 New York...
Harvard University Crew PositionName Class Residence Wt. Ht. Age Stroke John Watts '28 Morristown, N. J. 166 6.01 22 No. 7 Guy Murchie '29 Dedham 201 6.05 21 No. 6 F. A. Clark '29 Boston 205 6.05 21 No. 5 W. G. Saltonstall '28 Milton 185 6.02 22 No. 4 C. E. Mason '30 Boston 186 6.03 19 No. 3 W. T. Emmet '29 New York 175 6.03 21 No. 2 L. W. Dickey '30 Bedford Hills, N. Y. 175 6.02 21 Bow J. DeW. Hubbard '29 Brookline 180 6.02 23 Cox., C. H. Pforzheimer '28 New York...