Word: placed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Francisco is the place where young Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York State was wildly acclaimed as the Vice Presidential candidate just before the Democratic Party went down to ignominious defeat, in 1920. Chicago is the place on the shores of Lake Michigan that many a politico wishes he had been for Roosevelt before...
...convention date had been set), displayed a certified check for $125.000. Sneered Philadelphian Kelly of Chicagoan Kelly's righteous appeal, "I can't imagine Jim Farley thinking there is anything indecent about $125,000." and promised that delegates would have a good time, said that "no place will be closed at four o'clock, not even Independence Hall...
...Azores the fantastic rock formation that Columbus had seen through fog and mist and which seemed to him to point west. Twenty days from the Canaries to Trinidad-it had taken Columbus 26-convinced the seafaring Professor that Columbus was a very fine seaman, who "could get to a place and then come back and find it again when he wished," who was good at dead reckoning, and who, like the old Yankee skippers, "was good by guess and by God." Greatest triumph of the rediscoverers came when Capitana made the same landfall Columbus had made. After 26 days Columbus...
Coach Frank Cappon has a capable substitute for Meyerholz in Bob Peters, another six foot three, 195-pound football player, who starred at halfback last fall. A Sophomore and a Southerner, Peters is sure to see service tonight and may even start some place in the line...
Since Harvard is starting its fencing schedule rather late anyhow, the problem of training other squad members to take the place of Murphy and Wright becomes doubly acute. Peroy is giving his best men a rest today in order to take a look at some of the others, substituting the regulars if necessary...