Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...social melting pot that can boil down everything from cutaways to galluses. Nor is any one of them much like its fellows, because both Henry Yorke and pseudonymous Henry Green love to court new experiences and make fresh experiments. Since his proletarian years, Henry Yorke has graduated into big business: he is now managing director, in London, of his old Birmingham firm, H. Pontifex & Sons. In World War II, he worked full time as a fire-fighting "ranker," i.e., enlisted man in the hazardous National Fire Service...
...less than a month with a record that will re-elect him to its presidency--in the face of both the raucous agitating of such Communist-led unions as the United Electrical Workers and the growing political strength of Walter Renther, who gave himself a big boost by coaxing a non-contributory pension plan from Ford last week...
...Communists at the coming national convention. Armed with a strong steel stand, he might have managed it with comparatively little trouble; but now he is on very weak ground, open to damaging accusations that he has given up on the fourth round and is going along with big business. Now, Murray was undoubtedly right from a long-range point of view when he dropped the wage demands and stuck merely to pensions; but his locals won't see it the same way as the public. To them, it could be made to look like betrayal--if the United Electrical Workers...
Before the game, the varsity had an idea that, despite its graduation losses, it might be working well enough to give the Big Red a surprise. But a little too much inexperience and nervousness cost the Crimson three or four early goals when good scoring opportunities were missed...
After a relatively subdued first quarter, the Cayugans took control in the second and the third. Late in the second period, at 21:05, the Big Red's inside right, Tom Tappin, capitalized on a corner kick. Dick McKinney beat Crimson goalie Whoop Batchelder at 6:45 of the third period, and Hugh Fahs, substituting for Tappin, scored at 20:30 of the third quarter on a corner kick that bounced off two Cornell heads before rolling into the nets...