Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meat producing industry in the United States, but a comparison may help to show how inconceivable it is. ... Suppose we have the 81,532,600 hogs slaughtered last year in a single drove. Allowing four feet as the length of a hog, in single file they would string out for 61,770 miles, or twice around the world at the equator with enough left over to reach from the North Pole to the southern end of South America. This same great drove would stand 21 abreast from New York to San Francisco. A prodigious meat appetite is needed to consume...
...Tuesday the 14 men who played in the Yale games this year elected Edward Mauran Beals Jr. '25, of Boston, captain of the 1925 hockey team. Beals was first string centre last year, and alternated between that position and right wing this year, establishing for himself the reputation of being the fastest skater in college hockey at present...
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...Indian stalked into the Nemenway Gymnasium with the confidence bred by one triumph over Harvard and sundry other victories over its Intercollegiate League rivals. he sent his second-string warriors after the Crimson scalp, but the supposed victim was in no mood to stand the red skins outrages, and with the battle half over the invaders called for help. The proud Hanover chieftan summoned his strongest front, but to no purpose. The second half was as much of a rout as the first...
...veterans with which to start off the 1925 season, as Crosby is the only player who has started the last few games who will not be available next year. Walker, who was beaten out by Austin for left wing honors toward the close of the season, Hill, a second string right wing, Gardner, and Graves are the only other players to graduate...