Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Electric Eye...
Even track coaches avail themselves of this new force, for during the past four weeks sprinters have been carrying on experiments with the electric eye in the Cage at Soldiers Field...
Last Year's Hero. In Boston the state of professional football is still as low as in the days of Laundryman Marshall. Last year a half dozen enterprising sports promoters, with an eye on the luscious profits made by the National League clubs, organized a haphazard collection of teams ambitiously called the American League. Before the season ended the league dejectedly disbanded. This year hopeful sports promoters tried again. Most hopeful were a group of Bostonians, who got together a number of obscure ex-college football players, fished for the support of Boston's many Irishmen by calling...
Shrewdly timed to coincide with Larry Kelley's sudden reappearance in the public eye were two articles in the Satevepost by Larry Kelley, "with" Sportswriter George Trevor, Yale '15. They were written in the offhand style affected by famed athletes in the Satevepost, were full of such autobiographical data as: "I was a shy, sensitive boy. . . . Mother wouldn't let me try for the team until I filled...
Sectional Censorship. Chief affliction of U. S. textbook publishers is not greedy politicians or cutthroat competition, but censorship. Religious, racial, political, economic groups keep an eagle eye on schoolbooks, are quick to howl at what they consider irregularities. After Gary's School Superintendent William Wirt in 1934 charged that New Deal Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell was a revolutionary plotter, Oak Park, Ill. and Kansas City dropped like a hot potato a book of which Professor Tugwell was coauthor, Our Economic Society and Its Problems, and its sales have fallen off one-third, according to Harcourt, Brace, its publishers...