Word: bracket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Bill Daughaday's presence in the 165 bracket renders opposition somewhat useless, but Art Mason provides what competition there is for the rugged leader. And there would be more if Coach Johnson didn't deem it advisable to keep Bunny Barnes out of mat wars because of a pair of weak knees...
...almost a complete novice at the hill-and-dale sport in the early fall, and his rise to the top bracket of the cross country men of the East has been spectacular. He has been the first Crimson harrier to finish in every race the team has had this year. His climax performance was a third in the Heptagonal meet last Saturday, pacing the Mikkolamen to a first place tie in the team totals with Cornell...
...problem, there are emerging some clear-cut and comprehensible issues. The crux of the matter might now be stated as follows: The Administration is persisting in its general policy of creating associate professorships only when there are predictable vacancies--over a certain span of years--in the full professor bracket. In accordance with this policy, ten assistant professors were released last spring, since no positions higher up were seen to be open for them within the next ten years. This action was taken in spite of the fact that several of the men were widely admitted to be of Harvard...
...lower bracket, the form favorite was Bromwich, the two-hander who plays tennis like a man batting out fungoes. In the quarter-final he easily dismissed Gil Hunt, the Washington, D. C. mathematician who sometimes uses a tennis court to demonstrate how he can balance a pencil on his bare toes. But in Jack's next match, he faced no eccentric pushover. He ran up against a 19-year-old, six-foot-one Golden Boy from California, unseeded and unsung, but the nearest thing to full Titan stature U. S. tennis has seen this season. Sidney Welby Van Horn...
...present high surtax (up to 75% on $5,000,000) on upper-bracket personal incomes. Coupled with this was a plea to stop issuing tax-exempt securities.* Thus very rich citizens might be influenced to take normal business risks instead of buying Government bonds...