Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...southpaw Nekola will not pitch today after his feat of Thursday, when he shut out Boston College and held that team to a lone safety. Dobens, however, who twirled the Crusaders last year to victory over Harvard, may start, and will almost certainly see action if the Crimson bats get going. Coach Barry indicated last night that he might start Hebert, who held the Quantico Marines to three scattered singles, or the portsided Sims. In case the latter is called upon for mound duty, B. H. Ticknor '31 will play the center garden, but if a right hander pitches...
...aged 12. The New York bound ship in which he crossed the Atlantic had been blown far out of its course and finally made port at Wilmington, Del., leaving Charles, 12, and his sister Margaret, 10, stranded 118 miles from their parents in Manhattan. "How are you going to get to New York?" asked the ship captain, who wanted to put Margaret in some Wilmington household and ship Charles as a cabin boy. "We'll walk," said Charles, and they did, in two weeks, to Battery Park, Manhattan...
There are, according to the Hoover Economic Survey (see p. 75) some 17 million U. S. citizens engaged in playing the Stock Market. Most of these investors are new, small, ignorant. They speculate to double their capital rather than invest to get a steady increase. They are motivated by faith...
...look ahead to know the opportunities they have and to appreciate these opportunities. ... I don't want to criticize athletics or a great many extra-curriculum duties, but I think there is a great deal of time and money wasted on these things. . . . We must get our public and private schools down to a simpler curriculum...
...National Corp., the bank's security affiliate. Seaboard's President Chellis A. Austin continues as president of the merged bank; Equitable's President Arthur W. Loasby becomes Board Chairman. Said the official statement: "logical alliance . . . substantially multiply measure of service." RKO-Proctor. "I am going to get right after this thing," said, last winter newly-elected Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp.'s President Hiram Staunton Brown, onetime leather man (TIME, Dec. 10). Results of getting after it were last week evident with the Radio-Keith-Orpheum purchase of the F. F. Proctor theatre chain (eleven vaudeville houses...