Word: winning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permanent change in Yale's Commencement Day date necessitated for the first time the playing of the first two games on successive days at New Haven and Cambridge. This meant that two good pitchers had to be developed to win the series in two games...
...publication. One from Washington said: "My eye! We're dry!" One from California said: "You bet! We're wet!" As the women Democrats doubtless knew, most famed political slogans have either been struck-off in the heat of great partisan moments or have emerged from nowhere to win no prizes for their anonymous authors. In a bygone day, a slogan contest would have seemed as absurd as the idea of women voting. Fancy a dame of 1840 penning a note to a Mrs. Hubbard of Chesterton, Md.: "We have received your nice slogan and it wins the prize...
...Gambit and most of them were drawn; but Capablanca won the 7th and the 29th, Alekhine the 11th, 12th and 32nd. Last week the two men sat down to play the 34th game. Capablanca, with the score 5-3 against him, looked sulky. The Russian, with one game to win, looked meditative & nervous...
...anti-German historians in the war are well known, and the dubious statement is current that sixty per cent of the babies born of tobacco smoking mothers die in two years. At least, no doubt, a man drinking aldehyde will replace the policeman in the "You Can't Win" subway signs; the renegade will do his drinking down alleys in order to avoid the pointing fingers of abused wives and George Washingtons; and the public will grow very, very weary...
...time or money for football. Navy won the game. Army has now found time & money. Before untold dignitaries and 70,000, Army beat the Navy in Manhattan. Bewildered by the force of Navy's unexpected fury, Army trailed by two points at the half; awoke rudely to win...