Word: berthing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...winged "T" with plays necessarily similiar to the Harlow squad. For the key quarterback position Boston has a couple of old warhorses in Bucky "The Toe" Harrison and Frank Miklos. Miklos was injured early in practice this fall but is now approaching the form which won him a Varsity berth in 1946. Bucky flits bark and forth from the Varsity and Jayvee squads because of his utility as a placekicker, passer and ballhandler...
...forward wall, which may well prove to be the outstanding feature of the new team, 194-pound guard Bill Rosenau of New York seems to have already earned a starting berth, while Pete Coyne, of Brookline, another guard, looks good defensively. Waring and O'Brien are two competitors for the center slot although Lamar has moved Waring out to the end in practice sessions and 206-pound O'Brien has the edge right now. Waring, however, can tackle and block effectively and will undoubtedly see plenty of action somewhere on the squad...
...things were looking up. Francis X. Bushman was a hit playing a gregarious ham actor called Major Carson (reminiscent of the comic strip's Major Hoople) on The Rexall Summer (Theater. In a sudsy serial, Bob and Victoria, he oozed kindly wisdom persuasively enough to insure himself a berth on that show for some years to come. "My radio family," he explained cheerfully, "is so longevious that at this rate I should be in soap opera for 30 years...
...runner and passer Chuck Roche, star of the 1945 informal eleven. Returning also are such capable performers in the 1946 backfield as halfbacks Leo Flynn and Paul Shafer and fullback Paul Lazzaro, while Jim Noonan is playing quarterback behind Kenary and O'Donnell. Also competing for a fullback berth and showing some good defensive work is Herb O'Connell of the class of '50, who was inactive last year because of illness...
After only two weeks' deliberation, the Interstate Commerce Commission last week granted the Pullman Co. an increase in berth rate's (TIME, Sept. 8), from 1% to 48.9%, depending on the type of sleeping service and distance traveled. The boosts will amount to about $13 million a year. The company had claimed it needed them to offset increasing costs and decreasing traffic...