Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other side of the picture is that Coach Eck Allen is bringing a highly promising Brown quintet to Cambridge led by the sensational Harry Platt at forward. Jack Padden, a Sophomore, will probably get the call at the other forward post over the ailing "Soup" Campbell...
...November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor," the Vagabond gets one definite mental picture, while you may get an entirely different impression. Vag's mental picture of tents is always biased by a very rainy camping trip last summer. When Vag hears of lents, it has just got to be raining. To some, however, tents may always mean armies or something...
...with Ann Honeycutt McKelway, ex-wife of the New Yorker's Editor St. Clair McKelway, the book takes a crack at almost every other amateur theory and legend about dogs, their likes & dislikes, habits and diseases. Because the authors have a sense of humor, the book manages to get across painlessly a good many answers to such questions as how to get a dog and how to feed, train and take care of him once you do. Some sound advice for city dog-owners: never buy a grown dog; never put a puppy on the street until...
...proposed junket to the New York World's Fair next year as an added inducement, the Cotton Bowl Association announced that it would stage only one game-between undefeated Texas Tech (pride of the Panhandle) and twice-defeated St. Mary's of California. Each team will get about...
Charles Holmes Herty's 1933 proof that newsprint could be made out of Southern slash pine excited Southern publishers: with slash pine growing like weeds in the South, they ought to get their newsprint a lot cheaper than the $42.50 a ton then charged by the Canadian and Northern U. S. manufacturers. (Current price: $48 to $50.) When a Southern lumberman named Ernest Lynn Kurth announced early in 1937 that he would build the South's first newsprint plant at Lufkin, Texas, the publishers were even more excited. But though kraft paper factories were fast becoming the South...