Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Astor took risks with his money but he never deliberately wasted any. He prophesied the failure of a recently-opened hotel because the management put such large lumps of sugar in the sugar bowl. Poet Fitz-Greene Halleck who served as his confidential secretary for many years had once said to him: "Mr. Astor, of what use is all this money to you? I would be content to live upon a couple of hundreds a-year for the rest of my life, if I was only sure of it." Astor's will left him an annuity of $200. When...
...House common room, with an accompanying message to the effect that the unknown donors wished thereby to commemorate the undefeated season of the Lowell House oarsmen, who had nosed out five different crews during the spring season. Given as a perpetual trophy of the Dunster-Lowell race, the gleaming bowl has remained in the possession of Lowell
Three years ago in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena occurred the most famous blunder of modern football. Roy Riegels, California centre, picked up a Georgia Tech fumble, ran it 73 yd. the wrong way. Two yards from his own goal-line a teammate stopped him. but two Georgia Tech tacklers knocked him across the line. The referee gave the ball to California two inches in front of the goalline. On the next play, Georgia Tech scored a safety, which won the game and the "national championship" for that year, 8 to 7. Last week, on a cool windy clay...
...round-robin charity tournament in the Yale Bowl, Yale beat Holy Cross 6 to 0, in a 24-minute game. Then, when Brown had beaten Dartmouth 0 to 0 by decision of three judges, Yale beat Brown, 0 to 0, the same...
Spectators in the Yale Bowl last week expected to see Princeton somewhat redeem itself from six defeats in a row. What they saw instead was a ridiculous landslide in which Yale ran up the biggest score in Big Three history, 51 to 14. Yale's small Captain Albie Booth, ill with pleurisy, listened to the game over a radio, wondered later whether, as Coach Stevens was quoted as saying, "Every Yale player felt that he was playing for Albie Booth. . . . 'Another touchdown for Albie' was the word passed along...