Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...board of management virtually became its receivers: cagey Standard Oil of California Director Philip Halsey Patchin and solid Pacific Gas & Electric President James Byers Black. They fired Director Connick (annual salary: $17,500) and hired*(at no salary) a new director, smart, baldish Dr. Charles Henry Strub, onetime ball player and chain dentist, present-day Santa Anita race-track operator...
...Moses began his career in an Indiana mine, soon had a union card. By the time he was 40, he had changed to the management side of the tracks, and in 1933 as president of U. S. Steel's subsidiary, H. C. Frick Coke Co., carried the ball for Steel in its first New Deal struggle with labor. His successor: tall, greying Yaleman John Gephart Munson, one of President Benjamin Fairless' new order of hardheaded operating men who believe in placating labor...
Soccer enthusiasts kick the ball around across the street on the Business School fields, under the direction of John McDonald. This sport offers the beginner a good opportunity to earn his Yearling numerals, as few veterans report...
...rainy afternoon in the grim, gray Yale bowl, when a favored Crimson eleven finally struck down a particularly tenacious bulldog. Torby Macdonald, captain of the current eleven, snatched a pass over the goal line in the gloaming and "Chie," Boston executed a miraculous place-kick of a wet, muddy ball to give the Crimson victory...
...most of the spectators as well as the players bunked in the barrack-like dormitories on the campus. For five days they watched the tennis and for five nights they fraternized: a get-together reception, a watermelon feast, a moonlight sail, moving pictures and a climactic Grand Ball...