Word: catapults
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the football season in full swing (see p. 53), Ohio's Governor Martin Luther Davey last week managed to catapult himself into the headlines by contributing a few notes on how footballers are financially coddled at Ohio State University. The Tree-Surgeon Governor was not concerned with the purification of Amateur Sport. His prime purpose was to embarrass politically the University, of which he is no alumnus...
...under a closed professional dome which doctors want their patients to believe is the most beautiful, unselfish, beneficent thing on earth.† Any physician who by accident or design happens to get into the lay spotlight runs a serious risk of being tossed out of Organized Medicine. Chief catapult is Chapter III, Article I, Section 4, of the Principles of Medical Ethics, which pertains to "advertising" and reads in part: ". . . It is equally unprofessional to procure patients ... by furnishing or inspiring newspaper or magazine comments concerning cases in which the physician has been or is concerned...
...half position. Bill Clark, who ran 52 yards to help the Big Green to tie the Crimson game in the closing minutes of the game last year is just at capable now as then and will be a considerable help if he is able to play. Tony Geniawicz, the catapult in the Green backfield will probably see service also. He has been shifted from the bucking back position to a halfback berth this last week. Joe Kiernan the sophomore fullback who scored two touchdowns last week will carry out the second string bucking back assignment...
...towing force lifts the drag-sail to the surface where it smooths the water, makes a floor for the plane. Winches are brought into play and presently plane, apron and all are hoisted aboard like a toy in a napkin. The plane is mounted on the Westphalen's catapult whence it is shot off to continue its journey. After its overnight stop last week, the Monsoon was shot off in the morning for an easy day's flight of 950 mi. to Natal, Brazil. Total elapsed time across the ocean: 33½ hr. Other flying boats were standing...
...Family Circle proudly announced that six more store chains had subscribed: Safeway, MacMarr and Pay'n-Takit in the Middle West and Pacific Coast, First National in New England, American Stores in the Middle Atlantic, Southern Stores in Florida. Beginning Oct. 1 the circulation of Family Circle will catapult to more than...