Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a coach inherits a bunch of Sophomores lacking in outstanding ability local sportswriters generally conclude their remarks about the squad with the ancient blurb, "--but the spirit is fine!" It is the choice of this writer to start, rather than conclude, his remarks with the blurb, for if what is called 'spirit' now can be translated into hard training for the duration of the season, then something tangible will have been achieved in the way of improvement. This, Coach Ulen will tell you, comes only from practice of the most strenuous sort...
...Racing Form bulging out of his coat pocket, ambled around the grounds at New England's fashionable St. Paul's School, taking bets on the Kentucky Derby. He was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr., whose father had gone down with the Lusitania. His mother, twice remarried, owned a fine stable of thoroughbreds, and young Alfred, heir to some $20,000,000, was champing at the bit for the day when he could spend all his time among horses...
...Templeton's left shoulder, squeezes when he is to speak or play, whispers the first few words of each speech. To speed his playing North presses Alec's left shoulder with his forefinger; to slow him down, the forefinger is drawn across his back. After a particularly fine job, North pats Alec's left coat pocket. Thus far, Alec has never missed a cue, has had his pocket patted often...
...years big Melville Shoe Corp. (No. 1 U. S. shoe retailer; sales: 10,000,000 pairs of shoes, 12,000,000 pairs of socks) and J. F. McElwain Co., Nashua, N. H., shoemaker, have got along fine. The arrangement between them has been that Melville contracts to take most (now 92%) of McElwain's yearly output, to be sold through its 652 Thom McAn chain stores. Under the plan the factory sold shoes to the distributor at cost, took a percentage of net profits from sales. This streamlined combine, which eliminated all conflict between the two main branches...
...time high for any publishing enterprise. Holders of its 7% preferred (of which 722,714 of 900,000 shares are now held by the public) got their dividends as they had for years. Holders of its common got $8 in dividends, felt they had a fine investment in a stock which was selling at $132 before the October crash. But by the depth of the depression in 1932 the dividend on common had dropped to $1. Since then, no holder of the 1,732,366 shares outstanding has received a thin dime. In 1933 conservating Curtis Publishing...