Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reports coming in from all states indicate that this will be a successful winter season, with skiers taxing the facilities of hotels, ski-schools, and railroads. Last year's poor snow conditions apparently only whetted the appetite of the average enthusiast...
...aviation enthusiast since 1928, Dr. Norcross, in the last two years, has visited all the large aircraft factories, air-ports and flying schools, has conferred with heads of most U. S. airlines, studied facts and figures on the growth of U. S. aviation since 1927, when airlines employed only 462 persons. Some of his findings...
Collecting cows' udders once a week in warm weather and twice a week in cold weather will reward anyone with a free garage during the year. Miss Cole, of Grant Street, is a dog enthusiast, and has decided that a dog's favorite dish is cows' udders. She has accordingly offered garage space to any one who will drive over to the stock yards in Watertown and bring back a car load of cows' udders whenever necessary...
Professor Coolidge is a 100 percent Bostonian and a bicycle enthusiast. He was born in 1873, graduated in the Class of 1895, and began teaching Mathematics two years later at Groton School. He moved to Harvard in 1900, became a professor in 1918 after winning the Cross of the Legion of Honor in France. Now head of the department of Mathematics and periodical (average every five years) author, he is one of the best known, mathematicians in the world. After writing on the Complex Domain (1924), he does not find it hard to count his eight children...
...notch colored golfers (including 16 women) met for the 13th annual Negro championships of the U. S. Thirty-four played for money. 101 for fun. Some carried their own clubs, others paid white caddies $1 a round. All were extremely courteous to the lone white competitor, a local enthusiast named Charles Hlavacek who entered the tournament because he disliked to interrupt his habit of playing daily on the Palos Park course...