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Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.

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Herbert Hoover
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: August 10
Died: 1964
Died: October 20
31St U.S. President
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West Branch
Iowa
Herbert Clark Hoover
Herbert C. Hoover
President Hoover
H. C. Hoover
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A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.
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America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
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Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
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I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.
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Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.
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