Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Neck, L. I., famed slangman. sport cartoonist, comic strip artist (Indoor Sports) of the Hearst newspapers, native of San Francisco; of heart disease and bronchial pneumonia; in Great Neck. In boyhood a buzz-saw ripped off most of "Tad's" right hand. He learned to draw lefthanded. In 1920, when he saw Jack Dempsey knock out Billy Miske, he had a heart attack. After that he was confined to his home, drawing every day, but attending no heart-affecting sport events. Occasionally he went to Manhattan, stared up Broadway from a suite in the Hotel McAlpin. He adopted...
...Harvard shell jumped almost a length at the start, and opened up water gradually at a steady 32 stroke till it had a three length lead at the bridge. Here the water grew rougher, and although both crews dropped the stroke to a 30, the Crimson eight continued to draw gradually ahead, and held its lead in the final sprint, covering the mile and 5-16 in 7 minutes 7 seconds. The engineers were clocked at 7 minutes 25 seconds...
Apparently, military and naval pursuits have failed to stir the imagination of the class of 1932 as much as last year's group. Crew and singles, holding third and fourth places, have failed to draw their share of the increase in this year's class but have lost slightly...
...broadly devoted to "education and leisure." Said Major Fred J. Ney, N. C. E. executive secretary, prime mover of the convention: "The real purpose of this conference ... is to develop a keener appreciation-of the educational problems common to the whole of Canada. .... A more special purpose is to draw the widest possible attention to certain aspects of our western civilization which are crying out for consideration. . . . The older countries [invited to the convention] offer something of a challenge to the voice and speed of our western civilization. . . ." The contributions were not startling. Rabindranath Tagore deplored the constitutional western tendency...
...appointment of a full-time, full-pay director of publicity, the Harvard Athletic Association is merely assuring itself of accurate, and timely news service, a condition which is distinctly better than the stumbling disorganization of Harvard athletic information that has previously existed. To draw an analogy between athletic publicity and University publicity in General seems justified, since the elements of accuracy and timeliness are fully as important to the one as of the other...