Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your posture is faulty, a six weeks program of corrective exercises is prescribed. This is, however, a surprising amount of fun. Candidates for many teams are put through a period of some form of it, and although it may leave a few sore muscles and call forth a few grunts, it's enjoyable...
...couple of hundred Freshmen answer the call for football candidates every year, but with genial Neil Stahley to separate the chaff from the wheat, no one who thinks he really knows how to play football need have any fear of being overlooked. Stahley was Freshman coach three years ago, the first year of Dick Harlow's regime. Last year he was taken to the Varsity with the ranking of Field Coach. That season he did a little of everything, in fact a whole lot of everything, including the scouting of the opposition. This year he will handle the Freshman again...
...race to all but multi-motored planes with radios. But protests continued to spout and the U. S. Department of Commerce finally declared that it would not permit the race (TIME, May 31). By this time the handwriting was clearly on the wall, but stubborn Minister Cot refused to call off the idea. As a substitute publicity stunt for the Exposition, he devised a race from Istres, France, non-stop to Damascus, then back to Paris with as many stops as entrants wished. Last week this flight took the air with tremendous fanfare...
When the Sacramento Union heard about this it began to call proudly for a new gallery to house the "$15,000,000" Crocker collection. Director Pratt rated his findings more modestly but his curiosity mounted from week to week. He decided that the old Crocker catalog was not only inadequate but frequently wrong, wrote and printed a new one. Last week Mr. Pratt hung up for Sacramento art lovers his first batch of newly discovered or identified pictures, declaring it "one of the most important art events of the West...
...shoddier the quality. Drugs, another leading gold mine for western civilization's advertisers, were an even bigger flop than cigarets. "The total consumption of foreign pills," says Crow, "probably does not average much more than one pill per annum per person." Yet curiously enough reliable insurance companies call the Chinese as good risks as English or Americans...