Word: woodruff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tight pitching by Captain Woodruff of Amherst and Crawley of Springfield has reduced the batting average of the University squad during the period since the Bowdoin game. At that time, the Crimson stick-men were meeting the ball for an average of .267, but the light hitting that has featured the last two encounters has reduced this figure to .250, or one bingle for each four journeys to the plate...
...Then Woodruff came out, and his letter 'H' acted upon the young academicians like a red rag upon a bull. Again yells, cat-calls exclamations, expletives, snatches of derisive song, more 'Rottens' and 'Oh, my's' all of it continuing for 15 minutes uninterruntelly...
...York Supreme Court Judge; Robert L. Luce, Manhattan lawyer; Edward L. Parsons, San Francisco bishop; Charles C. Paulding, Manhattan railroad lawyer and nephew of Mr. Depew; Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania Governor; Robert Treat Platt, Portland (Ore.) lawyer; James Gamble Rogers, Manhattan architect; Charles H. Sherrill, Manhattan lawyer; George W. Woodruff, Pennsylvania Attorney General...
...popular editions of that much-feared-for book. But if any new Evolution text for laity should be absolved of the Dayton imprimatur it is the present volume. Mr. Ward, lately a teacher at the Taft School, lives in New Haven, Conn., where he is an imtimate of Professors Woodruff, Keller and Lull* of the Yale University Faculty all of whom checked his manuscript before it was accepted by the publishers...
Died. Rollin S. Woodruff, 71, one-time (1907-9) Governor of Connecticut;* in Guilford, Conn., of heart disease...