Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lord '28, the foremost candidate for the catcher's berth, has been taking his turn regularly behind the bat with a recently-formed first-string infield, made up of R. E. Durkee '29, and J. A. Prior '29 alternating at the first-base position, J. J. Carver '30 at the keystone sack, R. C. Sullivan '28 at shortstop, and G. E. Donaghy '29 at the hot corner...
...after a hiatus of fifteen years, there came another turn of fortune. The unexpected happened. A Senator in good health and sound mentality actually resigned his office. He was a Kansas Senator and Curtis was elected to succeed him. On January 29, 1907, Curtis left the House of Representatives and entered the Senate, of which Henry Cabot Lodge had been a distinguished member for fifteen years. Lodge had achieved a position third from the top of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Curtis began at the bottom of a committee which had no work and never met, the Committee...
Nevertheless, despite these facts, Curtis is a power in the Senate and a great man in his own environment. His is usually the shoulder that makes the wheel turn round. His is usually the conciliation which finds a basis for agreement. He is an active man, tireless, industrious, and devoted to the routine of his office--a man still young at sixty-seven, stockily built, sturdy, with more spring to his step than most men half his age, and reported by one of the most competent newspaper men in Washington to be the best poker player in either House...
...turn of the century, in Philadelphia, Joseph Pensendorfer was sentenced to hang for the murder of his father-in-law who had attacked his wife. Two days before his death day, the sentence was commuted to "life." Nine months ago he was pardoned and released from Pennsylvania's Eastern Penitentiary, after an exemplary term during which he had made himself a master carver and inlay worker. He had patented tricks of his own in woodworking and had a $50,000 bank credit (royalties) awaiting...
Etchebaster wears a Basque cap, a Basque mustache, a Basque smile. He moves around the court very little. He plays his floor shots with a delicate, excessive turn of the wrist that cuts the ball down sharply over the low looping net. Jay Gould called his floor shots "invincible." Soutar, running around, breathing hard, scored his points to the dedans and grille, made his best fight in the seventh game, then lost three games in succession, the match, and the title...