Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congo copper, tin and oil, pay for it within a specified time with thermometers, automobiles, safety razors, cameras, et al. One potent group in Belgium hailed this scheme with delight, for as special inducement Dr. Schacht was willing to have all the Congo imports carried in Belgian freighters. Catch to all this is that Belgian manufacturers are opposed to seeing their country flooded with German manufactured goods. Premier van Zeeland listened earnestly, promised nothing...
...phenomenon of Robert William Feller is his father, William Andrew Feller of Van Meter, Iowa (pop. 410). Frustrated in his own ambition to be a professional baseballer, Father Feller decided to realize it vicariously in his son. When Robert Feller was four, he and his father played catch behind the barn on the 360-acre Feller wheat farm. At 9, Robert Feller could throw a baseball 275 ft. At 13 he could do better than 350 ft.* At 14, he could pitch so fast that his father had a hard time catching the ball and once when...
...mainly because his name should have box-office value. Of the three rookies, Owen attracted most attention by impudently remarking of his team's best pitcher, Dean: "I'll get along swell with Dizzy as long as he doesn't try to tell me how to catch...
...three major sportsmen who now alone speak for the College in the Committee for the Regulation of Athletic Sports are symbols of a past era in Harvard Athletics. At every opportunity Mr. Bingham reiterates his intention to discourage big-time sports in favor of intramurals, and to catch up to Yale's record of 55 per cent of the students on house teams. When this hope becomes a reality, it will be clearly necessary to give average students a vote in the supreme court. It may prove an important help to the evolution of the Student Council's recommendations...
...years ago when a couple of bright young graduates outlined their plans for exploiting a patented automatic stop & go traffic signal. By last week these two bright young Yalemen had discovered that if they did have the world by the tail, that was a very poor place to catch it. In Federal District Court in Manhattan Wallace Graydon Garland, class of 1925, and Arnold Caverly Mason, class of 1928, were convicted of conspiracy and mail fraud on 43 counts in a flamboyant security swindle...