Word: top
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tremendously relieved: "Labor has grown up, has assumed responsibility and gone to a good tailor. . . . . There were leading Conservatives and Liberals present with lords and men of great possessions, but labor held its own in the cut of its morning coat and the tilt and gloss of its top...
...leagues top the elaborate structure of organized" professional baseball, uniquely monopolistic. These are parallel associations, each composed of eight teams or clubs, each team or club representing a city in which half of its games are played...
...reward; that he would once again assume the enjoyable role of pennant winner. His youngsters, however, proved not quite stanch enough to turn the trick; finished second to the world champion Washington Senators. Last year they were again good without being quite good enough, ended third from the top. Experts liked their 1927 chances...
...Plan was created in 1911 and gained favor steadily until five years ago, when Harvard embarked on another adventure of admission. It was decided then that a boy who stood in the top-seventh of his class during his last two school years, and had included studies which would satisfy the New Plan requirements, might be admitted without examination. This plan checked the growth in the number of students entering Harvard under the New Plan. In 1925 314 Freshmen entered without examination, 32 percent of the class...
...through playful eddies and deep pools. Black April is a full size product, as authentic as a bumper cotton crop. The Author. Her birthday was Halloween, 1880. Her mother died and she was reared by an oldtime Negro "mauma." Her name, Julia Mood, was near the top of the class of 1896 at Converse College