Word: winning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week Walter William Heffelfinger prepared to present himself to the voters of Minneapolis as a candidate for Congress in the Fifth Minnesota District at a special election to succeed Representative Walter Hughes Newton, resigned. Time had changed the Heffelfinger physique but little. At Yale he had learned how to win. In Minneapolis he was confident of the election results...
...comparing the $8,800,000,000 new decided upon as the total due with the $21,000,000,000 that was fixed at the London conference of 1921. Evidently in their anxiety at seeing their prospects dwindle with every consideration of the problem, the creditor nations are glad to win Germany's consent to a sum greatly below their original hopes rather than have the matter remain any longer in doubt...
...imposing 19 to 2 victory over Western Maryland. Little as can be inferred from comparative scores, it is interesting to note that Providence College, which has three times this year defeated the Brown outfit that appeared here Saturday, had some difficulty in eking out a 4 to 2 win over Georgetown...
...purpose of these hearings was to evolve a common political denominator on which sufficient Republican strength could be massed to insure the farm bill against serious revision on the House floor. The committee was ready to compromise, to grant increased agricultural rates to win solid party support for the bill as a whole against all Democratic amendments...
...lunch of salad and cold chicken, had not lost her confident one-sided smile. Her drives were long, her irons had sting. Miss Collett suddenly became nervous, uncertain. Calmly Joyce Wethered advanced to lead. It was on the 15th that she definitely stopped the last Collett attempt to win back the morning's lead. Glenna Collett had taken a brilliant four. Miss Wethered had to sink an 18-foot putt to halve. She putted. For the first twelve feet the ball rolled so fast that it made a white line on the green. Then it slowed, took minutes...