Word: ward
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...WARD B. KIMBALL...
Weatherhead is one of a talented trio of ex-Freshmen swimmers who established a medley relay record in last year's yearling Yale meet with 3:12.1 for the 300 yards. Breast stroker Larry Ward may still work into the lineup, and backstroker Tom Woods is the leading backstroker. Woods has other distinctions besides being the third College man to bear his name, and son of Thomas S. Woods, JF, an all-American Crimson football player in 1920. He broke the Freshman backstroke record on his own again in last year's Bulldog sinking with 2:39.4. Diving mentor Bernie...
...more than a month, mayhem and murder, rape and robbery had been rampant in Indianapolis and surrounding Marion County. Husbands armed themselves, then armed their wives. People bought watchdogs. Locksmiths did a land-office business and householders chained their doors at night. From exclusive Meridian Hills to Pat Ward's Bottoms, nerves were taut. Indianapolis had escaped race trouble during the war, but all the ingredients for an explosion were there...
Brazilians generally agreed that Octávio Mangabeira was the man to get the democratic lines together on a sound program. He knew politics, from the ward to the chancellery, and he had seen the world-by request. His traveling days began unexpectedly back in 1930 when Dictator Vargas rode into Rio at the head of his gauchos and kicked out President Washington Luiz and cabinet, including Foreign Minister Mangabeira. For the next four years, Mangabeira lived in eleven European countries. He went back to Brazil, spurned a Vargas peace offering and had the courage to blackball the dictator...
Back in 1867 the famous preacher Henry Ward Beecher wrote a novel, his only one, Norwood; or Village Life in New England, which was serialized in the New York Ledger, and for which he received the then fabulous sum of $25,000. One of the minor characters was a mischievous boy from Hardscrabble, the poor down-at-the-heels farming suburb of Norwood...