Word: ails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solemn task of selecting All-America football teams starts about the middle of November when sportswriters, coaches and colyumists begin to air their views. It goes on until Sportswriter Grantland Rice, who is generally considered to be the Ail-American selector of All-America teams because he inherited the job with Collier's from the late Walter Camp, announces his selections. The Grantland Rice All-America team for 1932, compiled with the aid of seven sportswriters who saw the teams which Grantland Rice missed...
...been on the U. S. C. team that played California at Los Angeles last week, more people might have gone to see the game. As it was, there were 75,000, biggest crowd of the week. Even without Mohler, U. S. C. had a team which contained four Ail-American prospects: Captain and Left Tackle Raymond C. ("Tay") Brown, who makes a specialty of blocking punts; Right Tackle Ernie Smith, who has a bald head, huge paws and a talent for place-kicks; Ray Sparling, left-end, and at the other end of the line Ford Palmer who caught...
Amos Alonzo Stagg, Yale's first Ail-American end, went back to New Haven with his 41st Chicago team, which had started its season by beating Monmouth 41 to O. A prodigious skimming pass, Zimmer to Sahlin, from midfield to the goal line, gave Chicago its second-period touchdown, gave Yale, held scoreless by Bates the week before, its second tie for the season...
...Before the Hawaiian could read it, he was shouldered put of the way by Capt. Ward Wortman, naval guardian for the defendants during the Kahahawai trial. Mrs. Massie slipped past, fled to her stateroom, slammed the door. Capt. Wortman and process server wrangled bitterly outside. On deck blew the ail-ashore bugle. Mookini got off; Mrs Massie stayed...
...since exposed as a "diploma mill.") Dr. Brinkley built a radio station. KFKB, broadcast jazz music interrupted by lectures on rejuvenation. Soon he had transformed the lectures into a clinic, prescribing medicine by radio to patients whom he had never seen but who had written to him describing their ail ments. The prescriptions were identified by code numbers; patients were told where to purchase the medicines. Kansas drug gists, who had suffered because many Kansas physicians filled their own prescriptions, soon found that Dr. Brinkley's prescriptions paid the rent. His Milford Drug Co. made up the prescriptions...