Word: crop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Michigan's Fritz Crisler and his 1940 Wolverine football machine make their Harvard debut on Soldiers Field on Oct. 12. The Sophomore football crop at Ann Arbor was far above average last fall, and by 1940 these lads will be shooting for mythical national honors. Year in and year out, the Big Ten produces some of the best football in the land, and in 1940 the rejuvenated Wolves will be as burly as any of their conference rivals...
...Elbel and Watty Dickerman have graduated from the ranks of last year's Yardling squad up to the Varsity. They are the cream of an abnormal crop, and their places on the first six are not absolutely secure at the present time. Elbel had a creditable 77 for his medal in his only Varsity match against Bowdoin, and he definitely has the inside track for the number five spot. Behind him is tall Watty Dickerman, ready to withstand the challenge of Lou Roewer and Bill Calfee...
...Judith Traherne, Bette Davis is a horsy Long Island heiress with a stable of steeplechasers and a tongue like a riding crop, which she and her friends blame on her unusually severe hangovers. She discovers, from a personable young brain surgeon (George Brent), that her headaches have a more serious cause. The surgeon knows that every day brings her closer to death. Before death comes, on a sunny day at his Vermont farm, Judith knows too, but is convinced that the victory has been hers...
...father made manufacturing carpets. He has substantially enlarged it by managing two investment trusts, the Investment Corp. of Philadelphia and the Delaware Fund, Inc., and by using his sharp eyes in a number of ways. In 1931, for example, he took a look at Russia's bumper wheat crop, concluded that it would depress the world market, and took a short position in sterling that netted...
Billy Koepsell at short, Chuck Diven at second, Dick Trexler at third, and Herb Ogden hold forth in the inner defense for the Red and Blue. Chuck Morris operates behind the plate. In the outfield, McDonald, Dignan, MacHarg, and Raffetto seem to be the cream of a rather skimpy crop...