Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selling stock were unjustified. It triumphantly produced two difficult algebraic equations to prove that Corporation Securities stock was not worth what Mr. Insull had said it was. But the small businessmen of the jury did not believe that the laws against using the mails to defraud were framed to catch poor mathematicians. The prosecution's evidence was not the kind to convince the jurymen that Samuel Insull and friends were financial charlatans...
...done away with. The natural instinct for competion, the desire to gain recognition for the House should be more potent inducements to participation in the inter-House program than the hope of receiving an individual medal. Such trinkets as the jewelers of the Square offer each fall to catch the eye of the callow Freshman have no firmly established place in the life of the Harvard man. They are baubles born to blush unseen, to waste their brilliance in the bureau drawer. As such, they might be disposed with as adjuncts of our inter-House program. Before the custom becomes...
...Lawn Tennis Association, William O'Brien is Public Enemy No. 1. For the past four years U.S.L.T.A. has watched Mr. O'Brien woo away from amateurism the cream of the nation's tennis crop. Last year his prize catch was Ellsworth Vines. With Vines, William Tilden, Bruce Barnes and Vincent Richards, Promoter O'Brien played 75 towns and cities, taught the public to like professional tennis exhibitions, grossed $243,000 from 352,412 customers. But no theatrical producer puts on the same thing year after year. Casting about for a new act to liven...
...course, there are sections which seem to catch some of the old fire, they may have been written some time ago, but at any rate such tasty little essays as Bargains in Butterfly Equipment, and Some Figures on Wind Velocity may bring a few good laughs from any Boston audience...
...used in testing out the strength of his tribesmen. When he brought in a whale, the Indians formed a circle around the chief, and he hurled the ball at them. When any brave dropped it, he was "out." The last man remaining got an especially large slice of the catch as prize...