Word: pennants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does his work in a one-room studio that overlooks Boston Common and the Charles River. In one corner is a Dartmouth pennant, facing it the pennant of his Texas prep school. On the floor is a rug woven for Bill, with a facsimile of his signature sprawled across one end, an image of a long-horn Texas steer at the other...
...took that same spark and fire right out of the Harvard campus and transplanted it to Scranton (a Red Sox farm in the Eastern League) this spring." When Lupien joined the club immediately after the last Yale game, they were going nowhere in the league pennant chase. Suddenly they started to win the close ones...
...until Herr Hitler arrived back in Berlin that Germans knew he had been away. The trip was entirely secret. All the time he was absent his guard of honor stood before the Chancellery, and his personal pennant, which flies only when he is in Berlin, was left...
...Reds' harrowing experiences the past month: a robust team with a fielding average of .975 (best in the league) and a batting average of .273 (third best), they were leading the National League by twelve games on August i and looked like a cinch to win the pennant; but last week, mind you, they were struggling to defend a precarious 2½-game lead against the Cardinals, who had unfeelingly slugged their way to 20 victories in their last 24 games. Manager Bill McKechnie had lost 23 pounds in six weeks...
...Boys had split a double-header with the Cards. The second day, beloved Bucky Walters, the renovated third-baseman who had pitched 27 victories for Cincinnati this year, suffered a 4-to-o shutout. Then, on the third day, came Our Boys' last chance to nail the pennant in front of the homefolks. With three games left to play they could still clinch it in Pittsburgh, by winning two games of their final series against the Pirates. But the Reds had been shut out in the last two games, had failed to score a run in 24 innings; their...