Word: earning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outstanding among all matmen is 175-pound Captain Johnnie Harkness, who has chalked up eight straight victories. Probably the most perfectly developed undergraduate, Harkness feiled at Penn State the intercollegiate champion Ross Shaffer, and by dint of this victory may well earn the title in the champion tilts this year. Among his victims also are Captain Mouse Emory of Princeton and Kerns of Navy...
...world's largest pecan shelling centre'' depends upon the family labor of Mexicans and Tex-Mexes (U. S.-born Mexicans). Wages were recently cut from (7? per lb. to 6? for halves, from 6? to 5? for broken pieces -which means that a pecan picker can earn from 30? to $1.50 per day. Everyone, including the owners of the shelleries, agree that these are miserable wages but the industry claims that it can pay no more, that pecan picking is a pin-money...
...Bloomington, Ind., freshman Charles L. Templin sold fountain pens to earn his way through Indiana University. Police arrested him when they found the pens were stolen from the university bookstore...
...Goldcoasters drop their final encounter with the Ramblers Friday, and Winthrop and Kirkland down the Rabbits and the Bellboys respectively, the three outfits will be in a triple tie for top honors in the second half of league competition. The Adamsites, however, need to tie Friday to earn the right to meet the winning Yale College team on Saturday, March...
...trouble with this plan as expressed here is that it is too difficult to win a major letter. Men may be in the top ten of the country in their events and still be unable to earn the major "Y". For instance, this year Burns, topnotch Eli backstroker, is one of the six or seven best in the country, but because Princeton and Harvard happen to have equally outstanding backstrokers he may not earn a letter...