Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with Joseph Burnett's money (vanilla, Deerfoot Farms), St. Mark's in the words of the school prayer, has had "rich gifts bestowed upon it, and its courts thronged with youth." Deer-foot Farms are located in Southborough, and when the wind is in the right quarter Third Formers, whose dormitory faces East, are made well aware of their late benefactor's sausage plant.* So that St. Mark's boys may be further pork-conscious, each year on Founder's Day suckling pig is served. Eight or ten times in the school year Headmaster Thayer...
Coach Rockne's phlebitis (congested legs) grew worse and kept him at home, but the 34 members of his big squad switched places in the game as if he had been there, scored three touchdowns in the second period, another in the third, to bag Northwestern's Wildcats...
...Barry Wood slanted over a field goal. Once Booth nearly got away but Bill Ticknor pulled him down by the back of his sweater. Harvard 10, Yale 6. Unhappy sequel: Victor Harding Jr., of Hubbard Woods, Ill., Harvard end, complained of fierce stomach pains after a scrimmage in the third quarter. His spleen was ruptured, had to be removed...
...Second Empire fell, young Dr. Clemenceau?for like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather he was an M.D.?seized every toehold to scramble up in the third republic. Poor patients helped to get their medico chosen Mayor of disreputable Montmartre, later a deputy to the National Assembly. In 1880 he founded La Justice, first of the string of Clemenceau news sheets which really made his fame. As leader of the extreme left radicals he became "the wrecker of cabinets"?is said to have clawed down 18 prime ministers...
Attendance in the third week of the wonder totalled well above a million. The crowds included Chinese, Jews, Irish, Gypsies, Southerners, Protestants, Boxer Jack Sharkey, Negro Boxer Sam Langford. So overrun was the cemetery that other graves were sadly desecrated, other funerals made impossible. Authorities had limited miracle-seeking hours between 7 a. m. and 5 p. m., then from...