Word: doings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Distribution of the questionnaire came on the heels of statements by Ray Barbuti, Olympic 440-metre champion, although officials said the one had nothing to do with the other. Barbuti, suspended by the A. A. U. recently after criticism of amateur conditions, charged in the April number of Sportsmanship (a...
It was a rawish morning in Manhattan last week when the squeak of early traffic and the fading of a good night's sleep woke Columbia's Professor of Physical Education Jesse Feiring Williams. He stretched out one arm and twitched it a little. He wiggled his fingers...
In the euphony of current advertisements, water pipe manufacturers have been trumpeting, bugling, tooting and piping the merits of various pipe materials. Brassmen have clarioned that brass pipes last a lifetime, do not rust. Ironmen have said the same for iron-pipes.
Meanwhile steel-pipe makers have been whistling through their fingers. Steel is iron mixed with and hardened by carbon. Because it is easier to produce steel than to rid iron of its impurities, steel is cheaper than pure iron. It is also cheaper than-iron or steel alloys, and than...
Wrote shrewd Interviewer Charles D. Isaacson of the New York Morning Telegraph: "The little lady is furiously upset. She does not like the way she has been received and she has, like the overfed child, a dislike for all the present life. . . . I see a cynicism in her manner, a...