Word: winning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have improved financially by leaps and bounds, with few weak roads needing the aid of strong ones. The agitation in Congress for additional consolidation legislation is designed to give the roads a sort of power of condemnation whereby they can acquire lines necessary to round out their systems and win the I. C. C.'s approval. The prospect for this legislation at present is poor...
Promptly. Tsaldaris henchmen sneered that of course the foxy "Old Man of Crete" would like to stage a plebiscite while his Government controls the Ministry of. Interior. The Minister of Interior conducts all Greek elections, is supposed to win most of them...
...fewer and fewer people read Greek, translations of the Greek classics become more valuable. This latest Englishing of what is generally considered Homer's better half should win the Odyssey many new readers, should remind many old acquaintances to read it again. Professor Emeritus (Harvard) George Herbert Palmer's translation of the wandering of Odysseus is in prose, but faithful to the letter and spirit of Homer's rolling pentameters...
...three of these men are Freshmen, and Coach Ulen sees great possibilities in them for the future. Wood the most likely looking candidate, is at his best over the quarter-mile distance, but tonight he is out to win a medal in the 500-yard free style, and also in the 100-yard open free style. In the former event he will be pitted against William Squires of the Boston Swimming Association, whose unexpected showing outdoors during the past summer was the feature of the season. Squires captured the 440, 880, and mile outdoor senior championships, but recently...
Although Wood has not competed directly against any of the men whom he will meet tonight, he is favored to win both the 500 and the century. Local swimming officials have watched him at work in the Y.M.C.A. tank and have spoken favorably of him. In the 100-yard race he will be matched against Gordon Conolly, senior diving and junior indoor 220-yard free-style champion. George Shinney of the Boy's Club of Boston, indoor senior 220-yard free-style champion and record-holder, John Sheesher of the Central Y.M.C.A. of Springfield, and Martin Ford of the Brookline...