Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach E. J. Brown '96 was unable to give any definite plans for the prospects of an outdoor session, but expressed his hope, if conditions turn out favorably, to get four or five shells into the water...
...news organs, "almost broke the bank at Monte Carlo," last week. Even if he had broken the bank, it would have been no staggering feat, for breaking-the-bank simply means that the banker of one roulette table is obliged to go to the cashier of the house and get some more money. Players winning as little as 5,000 francs ($200) have sometimes broken-the-bank...
...Pennsylvania are twice as long as we are and make more money per mile of track. Just give us these roads we have mentioned, and a few others, and we will be better able to compete with our big rivals and all the cities we reach will get better service. Thus spoke the Baltimore & Ohio, seeking to consolidate lines that would increase its trackage from 5,200 to 14,141 miles, its investment from slightly under one billion to slightly more than two billion dollars, its net income from about $46,000,000 to about...
...Eastern Standard (New York) time. Exponents of the change argued that Chicago and New York should have the same financial hours. Objectors argued that Chicago would have to put its clocks two hours ahead of the present schedule when New York goes on daylight saving time, early risers would get out of bed in darkness. Furthermore, keeping time with New York would involve time conflicts with Chicago's nearer friends, Omaha, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City...
Late in 1927 the two men, eager and friendly, flew across the South Atlantic to Port Natal, Brazil. Thence they hopped about South America. There were official receptions, accolades, photographs. It was noticeable how they jostled each other to get into the front of the pictures...