Word: braggs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paced by Paul O. Chatfield '39 and John K. Bragg '41, Winthrop yesterday captured the inter-House Championship Boxing Tournament out-pointing Kirkland 4 to 1. The matches were exceptionally fast and the men showed good form...
...winning five out of six races on Bert Baroni's Top Row, Johnny Longden has been in great demand. A contract rider for the famed Wheatley Stable until two months ago, he is now under contract to Don Cameron, trainer for the stables of Mrs. John Hertz, Vera Bragg and J. Shirley Riley, at $17,000 a year-highest salary of any U. S. jockey...
...Army's 800,000,000 candlepower searchlights are the world's most powerful. Last week 26 of them, needling the sky above Fort Bragg, seldom found a bomber. Sometimes moonlight diffused the searchlight rays, or clouds blocked them. At dawn, most difficult time of all for ground gunners, searchlights were of no use whatever...
...enemy hunters. Army men neatly turned this fact to their publicity uses. In North Carolina was concentrated all the modern antiaircraft equipment east of the Rocky Mountains. Twenty-four guns, in six batteries, were barely enough to defend the 1½-square mile objective marked off at Fort Bragg...
...checks weights and measures, tests and develops materials for industry. N.P.L.'s director-an important post in British science-lives in the palace where William IV lived as a prince with his mistress, as a king with his queen. Three weeks ago Professor William Lawrence Bragg, physicist, distinguished son of a distinguished father, moved out of the palace to become boss of Cambridge University's famed Cavendish Laboratory (TIME...