Word: y
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...send a Welshman to juggle polysyllables in Sailor Crick's stead. Darkly brooding upon this matter, Sir William fretfully observed to correspondents that "doubts exist whether the spelling of the town's name really is L-l-a-n-f-a-i-r-p-w-l-l-g-w-y-n-g-y-l-l-g-o-g-e-r-y-c-h-w-y-r-n-d-r-o-b-w-l-l-l-l-a-n-t-y...
Arthur W. ("Ducky") Yates, a gigantic resident of Rochester, N. Y., used to heave weights at the Hill School and at Yale. Two years ago he won the amateur golf championship of New York. He has been looking for another title ever since. Last week in Havana, taking care not to play the nineteenth hole at the wrong time, he slashed, bashed and putted well; became amateur golf champion of Cuba...
...sporting arena. After he retired for the night, taxicabs would swerve to his doors laden with inebriate racegoers. At last neighbors complained of pandemonium. The game ceased. The apparatus had cost Mr. Geddes $4,000. He was offered $1,000 per night to operate it at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., but he refused...
...Y. U. scored 25 points to win with Georgetown second with 22.25 points and Pennsylvania and Cornell third and fourth with 21.25 and 19.5 respectively. Harvard gained...