Word: far
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the varsity he was holding his own with Spreyer and Macdonald, but it may be that hard-working Ross Whittier will press him for his position. Whittier is a fighter and strong on fundamentals; he runs reasonably well and is hard to get by on the defense. So far he hasn't had a very complete test...
...machinist by trade," Keller says today and many a Chrysler man has seen him prove it. So far as Walter Chrysler was concerned, he had proved he was much more than a good lathe-hand as far back as 1916 when President Chrysler of Buick (who had seen Keller's work in the General Motors shops) hired him as Buick's master mechanic...
...year-old boy bumming his way south from Wisconsin to his home in Texas. Tom starts out with his friend Pete, a mindless blond giant with curly hair on his chest who almost immediately mag netizes a colored farm girl, troubles Tom's flesh by getting as far as taking down her dress before he remembers to send Tom away. This scene, equal parts Steinbeck and Pierre Louys, is followed by a touch from James Oliver Curwood when Pete kills a farmer in hand-to-hand fight. The story then swings quickly to mild Faulkner ; Tom loses Pete...
Henry Seidel Canby's Thoreau, dressiest biography of him so far, is timely rather than definitive. Canby unearths scant new material, finds no satisfactory answers to such speculations as: Was Henry in love with Emerson's wife? Was it Margaret Fuller, the Transcendentalist, to whom he sent his famous "hollow shot" No to a marriage proposal? The fact is that Thoreau's own writings contain just about all there is on Thoreau...
Showing more teamwork and far better blocking than last week, the Freshmen made their initial tally early in the first period, on a down-the-field march sparked by McNicol's tricky off-tackle running, and then a 25-yard pass, McNicol to Loring. The conversion failed...