Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a championship nine from last season intact except for the 1926 leader, Tood, prospects are bright for another successful season under the tutelage of Coach Mitchell who begins today the second year of his three year contract as director of the Crimson's baseball tossers...
...honor of being one of the last scheduled visitors to White Pine Camp fell to Herbert J. Tily of Philadelphia, chairman of the National Dry Goods Association, and Lew Hahn, of Manhattan, its managing director. These two reported that Prosperity's fingers had touched the clothing industry throughout the U. S. C Visitors at Paul Smith's climbed a tree, one armed with a jar of jam. They were "bear-hunting," endeavoring to recapture Babe, a bear cub brought there ten days previously by a Detroit cinema man. Finally bruin was coaxed to captivity...
...National Illiteracy Crusade proceeded. Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart, its director, was active in Montana, establishing "moonlight schools" similar to those she introduced in Kentucky, on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation, near Browning. Classes were begun in the Owen Heavy Breast school and in the home of one John Bull Shoe. Commonwealth College, founded three years ago by Laborites in a virgin dip of the Ozarks, near Mena, Ark., swung into action with two characteristic announcements: 1) Tuition, food, books, lodging and laundry came to $100 for the year, not including soap, tooth paste and pencils; and, "the school body dresses plainly...
Little did these two men look like the two first tennis players of the world as they lobbed and patted the ball at each other. Lacoste, whose father is director of the famed Hispano-Suiza Motor Co., seemed barely able to keep open his night-club eyes. Borotra leaped for the net, strained, caracoled, grimaced, and wagged his jaunty head-to no avail. Lacoste's precision was too much for him. In the first and third sets Borotra took the lead by breaking through his friend's service; but Lacoste's lobs were too accurate, Lacoste...
...importance of the purchase and the note issue may have made Director August Heckscher seem excited at the recent directors' meeting, which considered these matters. But surely Barron's Weekly exaggerated when it said that this dignified gentleman (he was 78 in August) "literally bounded in and out of the meetings, a picture of youthful sprightliness...