Word: equipping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greater speed, but were amply protected. The line, with the exception of the ends, will play in regular football uniforms, so that the team will be in two parts, those in the familiar heavy fogs, and another group in a new abbreviated regalia, more like rugby than American football equip...
...Whitlock did not insinuate that Ku Klux Klannism lay behind the Emerson strike. Instead, he firmly said: "This [appropriation] is a useless expenditure of the taxpayers' money. We have plenty of room now for all the schoolchildren of Gary. This money [$15,000] wouldn't equip a shack, and the site you propose is in a wilderness. There are no streets, no sewers, no facilities there...
...last week, Inventor C. Francis Jenkins of Washington, D. C., offered another scheme, whereby a pilot would need to peer no farther than the dashboard in his cockpit to stay on his course. Inventor Jenkins proposed to equip land lighthouses such as those now winking over the Alleghenies with automatic radio transmitters, each unit costing only $250 and manageable by the present lighthouse attendants. Each station would broadcast on a short wavelength measured to light up a wireless light bulb in the cockpit of a passing plane. Darkness, fog, rain, sleet or snow have virtually no effect on radio waves...
...stalwarts take their sport with some seriousness. Twenty thousand pounds were contributed by Indian Rajahs, princes, potentates to send these athletes to the U. S. and equip them with a string of 45 international mounts. They travel as a unit, not, as in former years, a group of individual star players. The manager, Col. H. A. Tomkinson, said: "This will be a team and not just four players. ... All of England is behind us and it is a united effort All the players are fit and well and quite ready to begin playing fast games as soon as the ponies...
...June 18.--With the gift of $250,000 from T. N. McCarter, President of the Red Bank Trust Company of Newark, which was announced tonight after the first act of the Princeton Triangle Club's show in the gymnasium, the desire to make possible the erection of a well equipped theatre has been realized. Added to more than $100,000 which has been saved by the Triangle Club from its 36 annual shows, the gift will build and equip the new theatre...