Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colgate rattled off another touchdown, with spinners and reverses. Brown, trying for a touchdown at any cost, passed on fourth down instead of kicking and lost the ball on its 36-yd. line. A pass, Conroy to Bodganski, made Colgate's third touchdown, settled the championship of the East...
...settled the championship of the East because, as rarely happens, the game was between undefeated, untied teams, playing their last game of the season. Brown, with a harder schedule, had the stronger record, with victories over Yale, Harvard, Holy Cross, Columbia. Colgate's major victories before the Brown game had been against Syracuse, N.Y.U. and Penn State. but its goal-line stand against Brown enabled it to accomplish a feat unequaled by an Eastern team since Pitt and Navy in 1910 played through a whole season with out being scored against. Brown's chief weapon this year...
Such admonitions are familiar to motorists in the East and South, especially in North Carolina and Virginia. Not every one knows that they are mostly the work of one man, Ashby W. Hardy of Petersburg, Va. Traveling roads as far north as Massachusetts, Sign Man Hardy received no outside aid, financial or physical. Some of his thousands of signs-biblical texts and dour injunctions-he painted on board or metal sheets at home, nailed to roadside fences and trees. Others he whitewashed directly on jutting rocks, tin roofs, barns, sheds...
...Georgia, Audley H. Shoemaker of Augusta, Georgia, Thomas G. Cutis of Minneapoles, Minnesota, August G. Curtis of Minneapolis, Minnesota, August C. Helmholzh, 2nd. of Rochester, Minnesota, Theodore Smith of Kansas City, Missouri, George F. Tittmann of St. Louis, Missouri, Egbert W. Fischer of Butte, Montana, Paul J. Allen of East Barington, New Hampshire, Douglas W. Overton of Concord, New Hampshire, Ramon N. Svoboda of Prague, Oklahoma, Richard M. Ballou of Providence, Rhode Island, John B. Hickam of Galveston, Texas, Lemuel Bowden, Jr. of Norfolk, Virginia, John H. Gilbert of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Frank A. Welty, Jr. of Dubois, Wyoming, John...
...Roosevelt's time. Often did the little dice click on the floors in some remote, but now dusty corner of the room. Foamy beer trickled down the throats and the room rang with joyous song. This was "the busiest room within the walls of the busiest building in the East" as "Mem" was often termed in days gone by. Today, three men enter the portal. One is elderly, white, and bent with age, one is a man in his fifties, the third is an undergraduate with crew haircut. The first recalls the momentous occasion when the walls were dedicated. Another...