Word: duals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected to give the harriers plenty of trouble, as that team will be composed entirely of the veterans who won the New England intercollegiate championship last year. A triangular meet will be held with Yale and Princeton but the scoring will be done as in a series of three dual meets between the three teams. Yale, according to indications, is expected to put out an excellent team this year
...Coca-Cola Co. Although from 1923 to 1929 President Woodruff devoted his working hours to Coca-Cola (sales went from $24,000,000 to $39,000,000), he remained a director of White and so close a friend of the late Walter Charles White that a type of dual management almost existed between the two companies. When in 1929 President White, an expert driver, was killed in an accident, the directors elected Mr. Woodruff to succeed him. He accepted with the remark, "I guess I will have to live in a Pullman." For a year Mr. Woodruff held both presidencies...
Last week Dr. Einstein was on vacation in Belgium. Immigration men tried to keep him out of the country because they could not understand how he was both a German and a Swiss citizen. Higher officials condoned the dual citizenship, took care that Mrs. Einstein's real "worry" had a happy time...
...hospital last week one Charles Groh, 21, thought that he could. In a damage suit filed against Coe College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) he said that in October 1929 he was required "without physical examination and without the consent of his parents" to enter a cross-country run in a dual meet with Cornell College (Mt. Vernon, Iowa). Student Groh ran until exhausted, fell, hurt his spinal column. For four months he was in a hospital. He was given blood transfusions, bone from his leg was grafted into his spine. Student Groh went back to Coe, stayed until a year...
Detective stories are based upon the law of improbabilities. To achieve its purpose of shocking readers, every detective story must have, if not a new trick, at least a new combination of old ones. Author Fisher uses two old ones: reanimation and double dual identity. His readers may be able to control their jitters when someone who looks a great deal like poor old Frimbo suddenly enters the proceedings, alive, hearty and verbose. They will be amazed at what reappearing Frimbo has to say about death-rites in the African tribe of which he is king; at what he keeps...