Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...margin of victory is conceded either Crimson or Eli grapplers on the eve of a desperate battle in the Indoor Athletic Building today...
...eve of a gigantic tussle with Yale this Saturday Varsity wrestlers are making a desperate effort to counterbalance the setbacks of a very mediocre season. Ardent fans of the rough-and-tumble sport of grappling are beginning to ask, "How is it that a squad with some excellent material at the start has lost every major event this year...
While the National Association of Broadcasters convened last week in Washington, D. C., not a mention was made of Cinemactress Mae West or her now celebrated Adam & Eve air skit. But when Senator Burton K. Wheeler referred to ''entertainment which transgresses the standards of decency & good taste," every one of the 436 N. A. B. members present knew what he was driving at. Just in case someone might have forgotten, Variety's widely-read radio section carried a full-page, $400 advertisement, in big bold type: ''Salutations! National Association of Broadcasters . . . from the CHAMPION...
Last week, on the eve of the 1938 Carnival, the campus at Hanover looked like a Dixie landscape. To postpone the Carnival was unthinkable. Like Mahomet, Dartmouth went farther up into the New Hampshire hills, found snow at Moose Mountain ten miles away, laid out ski trails and transported its guests...
Until shortly before its release on the eve of Lincoln's Birthday, Of Human Hearts had been called Benefits Forgot, a title lifted from Shakespeare's wintry hyperbole on man's ingratitude.* But even Shakespearean titles sometimes lack the necessary box-office smash to put across a photoplay that has no top-ranking box-office names. Late last month MGM ran a radio contest for a new title, paid a $5,000 prize to 17-year-old Roy Harris of Greenville, S. C. The investment produced wide publicity and a title near enough Of Human Bondage (TIME...