Word: zilched
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...games". Rather he talks first of What the team did or did not do to St. Timothy's last year and how he is sure the boys will duplicate or reverse last years splendid or regrettable performance. He goes on to tell the men without previous experience of Jo Zilch, who at the age of twelve was given up for dead and who at the age of twenty ran the hundred in ten seconds flat or shut out St. Timothy's or made the All American Team. He moralizes on the educational value of such effort and finally may tell...
...unprecedented took place. A cub reporter on a large metropolitan daily not only got his first effort into print, but the city editor put it on the front page under a "by-line." Seasoned reporters eventually get used to seeing their names over stories-"By Joe Suggs," "By Jake Zilch." But "By the Cub"-no one ever before saw that in a paper the size of the Daily News; NOT EVER...