Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team from Maine will be no setup is shown by the fact that their forward wall, led by 218-pound Harris Howe, giant tackle, averages 188 pounds. Their backfield however is extremely light, averaging only 155 per man. This is mainly due to the fact that Borstein, diminutive little quarter-back, weighs only 119 pounds...
Then hovering over the steel works of the enemy he dropped his major charges, one after another: "The United States Steel Company's earnings for the second quarter of 1929 were the highest in its history, to wit, $71,995,561. That amounts to $6.68 a share on 7,116.235 common shares outstanding on June 30, 1929, and $5.91 a share on 8,030,334 shares of recent issue...
These words had hardly rebounded from the Heaviside Layer when Jouette Shouse, Quarter-Master-General of the Democratic Army, seized the microphone and cried: "We have heard from self-appointed in- terpreters, who continue to assert that Mr. Hoover will not stand for a wholesale tariff raid. But what sort of chief executive is it who would permit his own Congress to make a larcenous hash of its whole session...
...shouts of "This is your swan song, Bruce!" Perhaps it was. But if he loses the Prime Ministry after the election Mr. Bruce will at least have the satisfaction of knowing that he failed in trying to solve a problem which has baffled every Australian Prime Minister for a quarter-century...
...lower half of the draw was Francis T. Hunter against the field. This contained 37-year-old Richard Norris Williams II, champion in 1914 and 1916 who in the round before the quarter-finals played what tennis players considered the most brilliant tennis of the tournament in beating young Arnold Jones. The finals, as had been expected, were played by Tilden and Hunter...