Word: afternoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon last week, members of C. I. O.'s Utility Workers Organizing Committee in the Zilwaukee, Mich, plant of the Consumers Power Co. calmly evicted the superintendent and sundry non-C. I. O. workers, manned the gates to the plant and announced they were on strike...
When a gymnasium instructor at the International Y. M. C. A. College, Springfield, Mass., set his class to tossing a soccer ball through two bottomless peach baskets one winter afternoon in 1891, he had no idea he was inventing what was to become the most popular U. S. winter sport, basketball. Instructor James A. Naismith was just trying to keep his restless charges from getting bored. The class took to his pastime with such enthusiasm that the Y. M. C. A. began teaching basketball in other cities. By 1893 the game had been brought to Detroit...
...machine. Partly financed by his government, and advised by Stratospherist Professor Auguste Piccard, he built a 14,500-lb., 1,950-h.p., trimotored plane with a 60-ft. wing span, designed to carry 20 passengers in its hermetically sealed cabin, to fly 250 m.p.h. at 28,000 ft. One afternoon last week Belgium's crack test pilot, George Van Damme, took it up on its first flight. At 150 ft. the machine wavered, bucked, but continued climbing till it was 2,000 ft. up. Suddenly it faltered, nosedived, crashed. Dead in the broken cabin was Pilot Van Damme. Only...
...with William and Mary University in Williamsburg on Wednesday, April 6. The John Marshall debate was lost and there was no decision in the William and Mary contest. There was also a half-hour discussion of the "Little T. V. A.'s" question with John Marshall on Sunday afternoon over WMCA and the Inter-city network...
...afternoon last week a spare, bronzed man, clad in faded blouse and overalls, was trudging along a dirt road two miles outside Yellow Springs, Ohio, when a reporter pulled up in a car alongside...