Word: ters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Octogenarian John C. Coolidge, father of the President, received a let- ter from Mrs. J. D. Knapp, of Joliet, Ill., asking prices on his maple-sugar. He replied...
...greatest of them all was John the Orangeman. For half a century he was the most popular man in Cambridge. His title to immortality is a now classic phrase which he coined in an inspired moment and repeated ever afterward on suitable occasions: "Ter bell wid Yale!" This won for him the mascotship of all Harvard teams, and in that official capacity he traveled with them wherever the fair name of Harvard was to be upheld on the field of combat...
...Champion, was to play 72 holes with sleek Walter Hagen, 1924 British Open Champion. Spade never digged a pit as murky, foul, treacherous as that which gapes for the spirit of a golfer who is off his form. Into that pit plunged Cyril Walker and thus did sleek Wal- ter become unofficial golf champion of the world. Hagen, at the end, was "17 and 15". Of 57 holes played, Walker won but 7, tied but 25. Said statisticians: "Never before* has a match between two great professionals of seemingly equal merit been so lopsided." In the first...
Coach Drohan was forced to use his first string lineup throughout except for a brief substitution of MacCurdy at cen- ter. The reserves are still an unknown quantity, and Coach Drohan fears they may not prove very strong...
...known men of their times. And ten years ago, Billy Sunday, on a lower intellectual plane, was known wherever U. S. vices flourished. His "cleanups" of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, followed in quick succession. Every drawing-room debated whether he did more harm than good. Every Protestant minis ter was forced to come out either "for" or "against" him. He was jeered, knocked, caricatured and people went early to get good seats in his tent...