Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alexander Kyle, 32-year-old Scot: the British Amateur Golf Championship; defeating Welshman Anthony Duncan, 2 & i, in the final; at Holyake, England. Of the five U. S. entrants-Defending Champion Charlie Yates, famed Tennist Ellsworth Vines, Connecticut Socialite Dick Chapman, "Trailer" Bill Holt of Syracuse and one Ned Phillips of Philadelphia-"Trailer" Bill Holt lasted longest (semifinal...
Submarine Torpedo Boat H. L. Huntley (1863) by Conrad Wise Chapman. One of the submarines built by the Confederacy during the Civil War. "She could be submerged, but had a nasty trick of plunging to the bottom and drowning the men within...
...other two rookies are in a worse spot. For they are expected to fill the shoes of two able batsmen, Ben Chapman and Pinky Higgins, who were traded in order to get pitchers. If Outfielder Ted Williams, a gangling, temperamental 20-year-old, can stand up to big-league pitchers as well as he did last year when he hit .366 and cracked out 43 home runs for the Minneapolis Millers, Boston fans will have something to wave about. Third Baseman Jim Tabor has already proved that he can cope with major-leaguers: in a tryout with...
...relations with Germany. Tops among 56 original Signers of this document were names to thrill millions of cinemagoers: Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Joan Bennett, Myrna Loy, etc., etc. In other cities, other groups of 56 signers are being formed. Less glamorous names represented New York, including Helen Keller, Carrie Chapman Catt, Mary E. Woolley. Excerpts from their Declaration of trade war, to which they propose obtaining 20,000,000 signatures...
...Conant has demanded a revaluation and reform of secondary school education. The evils of high school and preparatory school training are so entrenched and pernicious that it is incredible that no one has been forward enough to do something about them. Seeing the heart of the problem, John Jay Chapman wrote in 1924: "College loyalty is the only religion the schoolboy knows. . . . And this religious idea is kept alive in him by the vision of the ultimate college examinations--the Clashing Rocks through which he must pass to save his soul alive. . . . Thus an enormous moral pressure...