Word: watsonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first-floor room on Baker Street, London. Things? fresh tobacco and old pipes, bottles of acids and a violin case? seemed to be in disorder, but one had a feeling that their owner could find them, even though blindfolded. Dr. Watson and Billy, the page, were worrying around the room because the owner, Sherlock Holmes, had gone to bed with instructions that he wanted dinner "at seven-thirty, the day after tomorrow...
...books), Cyrus McCormick (reapers), Henry B. Thompson (cotton), Gordon Rentschler (National City Bank). Though he is a partner of Dillon, Read & Co., most people know Dean Mathey as a tennis player who, in 1916, was ranked No. 10 by the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. Last winter, he and Watson M. Washburn (Harvard man) forced Borotra and Brugnon, French invading champions, to a five-set match before accepting defeat in the Heights Casino indoor tournament in Brooklyn. "For an old banker," Mr. Mathey thinks this highly commendable. One other trustee, Frederick P. Scott, 1900, was elected to the Board from...
...Nassan racquetmen is ranked as the number one man as he has not been defeated in intercollegiate contests this season. Marsh of Williams is number two, while Part-ridge of Dartmouth is in the third position. Following is the ranking of the other men chosen by Coach Dell: Captain Watson of Yale, fifth: Sullivan of Lehigh, sixth: Wolf of Williams, seventh: Appel of Princeton, eight: McGlinn of Yale, ninth: Gordon of Harvard, tenth: Milten of Pennsylvania, eleventh: Rowden of Columbis, thirteenth...
This document, virtually a petition, asked permission to place the Egyptian Army under an Egyptian Commander-in-Chief. Should this be done the office of Sirdar* would be taken from its present British incumbent, Major General Charlton Watson Spinks, or "Spinks Pasha" as Egyptians know him. That such a thing should even be thought of shocked the British Government so deeply that it despatched the battleships and sent a note declaring that the whole affair must be a "misunderstanding." Why should the independent Kingdom of Egypt want an Egyptian Commander-in-Chief, when Spinks Pasha is fulfilling that office, with...
...match between L. H. Gordon '27 and Arthur in-graham Jr. '30 to determine the third Harvard match. The final choice of Harvard-Yale players for the English invasion is as follows: J. F. W. Whitbeck '27, L. H. Gordon '27, and M. I. Hill '30, of Harvard, and Watson, McGlinn, and Reed of Yale...