Word: alonzo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Alonzo J. Hammond of the American Society of Civil Engineers...
...inventor of basketball. He is Dr. James A. Naismith, director of the department of physical education at Kansas University. At McGill University he was the best athlete in his class (1887). From McGill Theological Seminary he went to Springfield Y. M. C. A. College to teach. Amos Alonzo-Stagg went there the same year to coach football and Dr. Naismith played centre on Stagg's team. In 1891, he was assigned to design an indoor game for a gymnasium class. He knocked the bottoms out of two peach-baskets, nailed them to the gymnasium wall, handed a soccer ball...
Football Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg gave to Chicago's new Jackson Park Museum' of Science & Industry the electric buggy which for years carried him about the University of Chicago field when he was suffering from sciatica...
...Evening News, creation of the late great President-Maker Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") Hanna, was until recently wholly owned by his grandsons Daniel, Carl & Mark. Two months ago it was merged with the politely Democratic Plain...
...shipping a ton of coal from Camden to Washington by air (cost: $147). In Louisville, one Charles Jernigan won two white chickens for his pot. In Omaha. Loser Lillian Zack carried Winner Remus Jobe down Leavenworth Street in a wheelbarrow. At Los Angeles, Hooverite Will Healy let Rooseveltian Manuel Alonzo pitch 24 rotten eggs...