Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Johnny Harkness, most powerfully built matman, kept his slate clean until he was crushed by Ross Shaffer of Penn State in February. Inventive, a dynamic grappler he has the best chance of al to chalk up an undefeated record. In the 165-1b. class Bill Daughaday, a Sophomore with an excellent Freshman record, is fighting it out with Albert Harkness '38, the captain's brother. With plenty of rough edges to smooth out, Daughaday, one of the two Yardling victors at New Haven, will probably win the position...
...Earl Woodgerd reported clouds but "OK." It was 8:19 p. m. with the ship about 140 miles northeast of its next stop, Salt Lake City. Then for twelve hours there was silence. Finally U. A. L. announced that its plane had been sighted, smashed near a saddle of Chalk Mountain in the bleak Uinta Range. When searchers next day reached it by pack horse and foot, they found 16 passengers, two pilots and a stewardess dead in the snow-covered wreckage-worst airplane accident in U. S. history...
...gathered for an annual conference, 800 priests and nuns heard a speech by Rev. Francis Peter LeBuffe, S. J., business manager of the able Jesuit weekly America. An expert at making points of dogma crystal clear, Father LeBuffe had a blackboard handy, covered it with white, red, green, yellow chalk marks demonstrating the meaning of the Trinity, Original Sin, Transubstantiation, Incarnation. And then Father LeBuffe went...
...Wimbledon by greeting the Queen with a wave of his racket. Last week, more formal, he bowed from the waist. Before the interruption, Budge had won the first set, 6-3, taking the last five games in a row. After it, with almost unplayable serves and drives that made chalk fly from the corners of his opponent's court, he took the second set, 6-4, after von Cramm had had a lead of 4-3. When von Cramm broke Budge's service from 40-love in the second game of the third set, it was his last...
...rushed to aid one woman staggering along with her tongue out. She was only becoming first across with tongue out. Two postmen took their lunch hour to be first mail-carriers across. Other firsts: the man who pushed a pill box with his nose, the girl who walked the chalk line in the centre, the boy who walked backward the whole...