Word: dan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haynie, also of Michigan, swam the fastest two distance events in a dual meet since Willie Kendall left competition, with a 2:12.4 220 and a 4:58.8 quarter-mile. Other outstanding feats were Yaleman Dan Endwelse's approximate 133 points to win the dive and the Wolverine 300-yard relay team's 2:58.2 win over the Eli medley trio...
...relation to the tobacco Reynoldses. He comes from the vote-gettin' Reynoldses. Back home in Buncombe County his daddy was a court clerk. Uncle Henry was chief of police, Uncle Dan sheriff, Uncle Gus tax collector. When young Bob first ran for local office 28 years ago, he was smart enough to tell the voters that he didn't give a hoot for them, that he was out for a job and the money. They loved it. Prime dandy of the Senate when he is in Washington, he wears old clothes and drawls...
...precocious frontier orphan weighing in at 72, makes a grand partner for Dick Foran, at a mere 225, there is "Listen, Darling," a Judy Garland vehicle. This latter picture features, besides Miss Garland's warbling--now geting quite torchy for the Temple-Withers-Granville circuit--a modern Dan'l Boone and his "striped beaver," more commonly known as a skunk. The beaver is much funnier than Judy or the other people who hang around waiting for a line...
Four of the five Harvard players survived the first round. They were Cannavarro, Frank Appleton, Jim Rousmaniere, and Dan Ladd. The Pearson-Cannavarro semi-final was a blaze of hard-hitting, with little change of pace by either player...
Knowing well that he would be roasted to a turn in the Senate for his tax-spend-elect slogan, but expecting to be confirmed eventually by about a 2-to-1 vote, Mr. Hopkins dived at his new job with all speed. He announced he would retain "Uncle Dan" Roper's impressive Business Advisory Council, most of whose many members are "close personal friends." He asked his specially close friend, W. Averell Harriman, board chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad Co. and also of the Advisory Council, to come to Washington as soon as convenient. He hired able Political...