Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yardlings will be after their sixth victory of the season when they face the favored Brown Freshmen at Providence today. Either Jack Schwede or Charlie Brackett will get the starting call from Coach Samborski for pitching while Bob Regan will do the catching
...Yardlings were unable to get more than two blows off the pitching of Ace Douglas of the Terrier Freshmen and bowed to the opposition 5-3 at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon...
...glad they didn't. The chief reason given for non-participation was that they could not afford time from their studies. Dean's List men, scholarship holders and science concentrators all had about the same fraction who checked this reason. "Because I was too lazy to get started" got almost as many votes, and Lab, work was specifically named by seven...
Matter-of-fact in his approach, making no attempt to conjure up literary terrors, Mountaineer Tilman pictures only two instances in which he was in genuine clanger, ascribes both to carelessness. Of a failure to reach a peak, he says, ''When a party fails to get to the top of a mountain, it is usual ... to have some picturesque excuse." But in his case it was the prosaic and common reason: "inability to go any further...
Some time after the Great Depression, Poet Archibald MacLeish, growing more and more shocked by contemporary U. S. social and economic conditions, decided that his poetry had better get busy and do something about them. To carry out this decision, which seemed to necessitate writing poems about matters of immediate popular concern, Poet MacLeish began to top-work his poetry on to popular art forms. First sizable sprout to grow from this top-working was Panic (1935), a graft of lyric poetry on the drama. This verse-play depicted a scene from the currently-expected crack-up of what Communists...