Word: duals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glittering new Pontiac smoothed to a halt a few feet from the Vagabond's not-glittering shoe-tips. Emblazoned all over its simonized flanks were painted signs proclaiming it a dual-control driver-training car. A. Mr. Yordan, from the Bureau for Street Traffic Reseach, stuck his head out from one of the driving sides--it didn't seem to matter which one--and invited the Vagabond to come for a ride to Newton High School where juvenile drivers were to be given the latest pointers on how to play wrinkle-fender. "Four boys," said Mr. Yordan, "and four girls...
...pressed his feet hard on the floorboards and to his and Mr. Yordan's surprise, the Pontiac jerked to a stop. "Funny," mused Mr. Yordan, "I thought I stepped on the gas to go around him." Then he laughed and pointed to the Vagabond's hoofs on the floorboards. "Dual controls," he said softly. "Don't freeze on them again." The Vagabond looked down, and sure enough, sprouting 'neath his ten-and-a-halves was a clutch and brake pedal of his very own. From there to Newton he kept his feet parked up by the heater...
Effective immediately so that this year's undefeated swimmers will benefit by the change, the new ruling provides that all men who place against Yale in the dual meet March 12 will receive major letters. Those who compete in the contest with the Elis but do not place will receive a minor "H" in major colors...
According to the times Michigan turned in when they best Yale, the Crimson tankmen could have taken the measure of the Wolverines. and Ohio State, handing Michigan its first dual meet defeat since 1930, 47 to 37, has showed that either the Buckeyes or the Crimson swimmers are tops in college ranks. . . . Although Penn is at the bottom of the League, Williams of the Quakers is on top in individual scoring. He usually competes in two sprint events and the relay. . . . On Sunday Ralph Flanagan did 1:23.6 for 150-yards free-style, eight-tenths of a second better than...
...body-building with such success that he was appointed swimming coach at Yale. When the 1936 Olympic Games came around, Yale's Kiphuth was named coach of a U. S. swimming team for the third time and his feat of twelve years without defeat in a collegiate dual meet was proclaimed all over the land...