Word: captain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Score--Harvard 10 1-2, 51st Brigade 6. Goals--Luton 7, Kimball 2, Nicholas 2. Fouls--Kimball. Time--Six five-minute chukkers. Referee--Captain Ryder...
...give a short talk. Pratt was defense star on the 1926 Harvard sextet and ended his college career in the victory over Yale that year in the Madison Square Garden. Last year he played with other former Crimson stars on the University Club sextet. Coach Joseph Stubbs and Captain E. T. Putnam ocC will also address the candidates...
...having Indian blood.* At 11 he was driving "Kicking Pete," a mule, in shaft 6 of the Atoka Coal & Mining Co. At 15 he was punching cows on "Lazy S" ranch and feeling aggrieved that Theodore Roosevelt had rejected him as a rough rider. At 19 he was a captain of the Indian Territorial Militia warring against Chief Crazy Snake. On a Friday he was graduated from law school, and on a Friday became a practicing attorney in Tulsa, making money and a reputation. In the War he joined the Army on Friday, was commissioned a Major and sent over...
...watched over its cutting and seasoning. Now there is a factory to turn out his boats by the hundred, but he still likes to get his own hands on the boats in his workshop. Brown and weatherbeaten as one of his Indian friends, Chris Smith is a most unassuming captain of industry. He has one and only one boast: that the Algonac post-office has been raised two grades through the importance of Chris Smith & Sons Boat...
...Nova Scotia last week made Captain David William Bone of the Anchor liner Transylvania uncertain of his bearings as he approached Nantucket, en route from Glasgow to Manhattan. He should have been over the continental shelf, the underwater plateau which extends 150 miles seaward from the North American coast. He ordered a sounding lead dropped. At 100 fathoms it should have touched bottom. It touched nothing. Twice more he sounded. No bottom. Although puzzled he decided that he was on his correct course and the Shelf might be out of place. Apparently last month's earthquake (TIME...