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Starting almost from scratch, Coach Fesler has built up an organization which has captured student fancy. Large crowds turned out for a number of the games, including many who had never seen a basketball game before but who found their first experience stimulating. Today basket is sufficiently important to be accorded the recognition given to hockey and baseball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWCOMER AMONG THE MAJORS | 3/13/1937 | See Source »

Rallying in the last half, the Jayvee hoopsters eked out a 28 to 22 victory over the Burroughs Newsboys last night at the Indoor Athletic Building. Working the ball in close to the basket, the Junior Varsity during the second period steadily increased, their 12 to 10 lead at half time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUNIOR VARSITY FIVE DEFEATS FOES 28-22 | 3/5/1937 | See Source »

...accurate passing of the Harvard team, and when the Tiger five succeeded in running the ball down the court, their attack was checked with such vigour as to frequently leave several players sprawling on the floor. Struck and McGowan were especially effective in breaking up plays right under the basket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASKETBALL TEAM SCORES 36-22 WIN OVER TIGER FIVE | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

Inflation means different things to different people-breadlines, bushel-basket currency, ballooning credit or simply whacking good times. Whatever the discord in definition, there is perfect harmony on one point: inflation means higher prices for all. Oddly enough, there was much more talk of inflation two or three years ago than there is today, when prices are mounting faster than at any time since the post-War "boom."' That "boom" in good measure was pure inflation brought on by War financing, and the subsequent collapse was highlighted by a terrific crash in commodity prices, just as the last depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Commodity Chart | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...Herbert Lee Pratt, onetime board chairman of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., President Charles K. Davis of Remington Arms Co., some 200 other big & little wigs. A waiter opened the door, and in waddled Field & Stream's hearty Publisher Eltinge F. Warner disguised as Donald Duck, with a large basket on his arm. Squawking, he advanced to the speaker's table, pumped the hand of Connecticut's onetime Senator Frederic Walcott who was presiding as toastmaster, launched into a falsetto speech acknowledging the gratitude of ducks for what the diners were doing for them. This done, he started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Duck Dinner | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

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