Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last July 15, the Giants were in fifth place, nearer sixth than fourth. They won 33 of their next 38 games to take the league lead, grimly held onto it through the late summer stretch while the Cubs and Cardinals helped put each other out of the race. All told, the Giants made only 742 runs all season. The team has the league's leading home run hitter in Melvin Ott and Manager Terry is a dependable batter but most of its games have been won by tight fielding and smart pitching. If one run was often enough...
Guessing at the outcome of the Gehrig v. Hubbell series last week, baseball experts were divided. Giant rooters pointed out that if National League batters who were accustomed to it could not hit the Hubbell screwball, Yankee batsmen who had never encountered it could scarcely hope to do so. Yankee enthusiasts retaliated with the argument that the Polo Grounds, where the grandstands are nearer to the plate than in the Stadium, would suit home run experts like Gehrig, Joe Di Maggio, Bill Dickey. Hired to sign stories for Hearst sport pages, Pitcher Hubbell and First Baseman Gehrig...
That morning on the Theatre's stage President Conant. flanked by President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell and by Harvard's oldest living graduate, a 95-year-old Boston lawyer named Henry Munroe Rogers (Class of 1862), blared his welcome to the alumni through two giant loudspeakers. He then proceeded to read several letters written by far-sighted alumni in 1836 to be read at the 1936 Tercentenary. President Quincy, it turned out, had neglected to seal them up before 1843. An unnamed Philadelphia graduate had been willing to wait a century for the denouement of a crabbed jest...
Harvard still boasts many a faculty giant like the Law School's Roscoe Pound and Felix Frankfurter, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, Physicist Percy Williams Bridgman, Astronomer Harlow Shapley, but in time they must yield and withdraw as Economist Frank William Taussig and Shakespearean George Lyman Kittredge did this year (TIME, Feb. 17). To replace them. President Conant admits, will be harder now that the growth of State Universities has pushed Harvard from its "natural pre-eminence," made it uncertain that a promising young scholar will heed the once undeniable "call" from Cambridge...
...dotted with ghoulish hazards placed there by the late Walter J. Travis, the club's most famed member and the best golfer in the U. S. at the turn of the Century. Most famed hazard designed by Golfer Travis is a deep pit. the size of a giant's grave, beside the 18th green. Into that pit legend says that Golfer Travis never sent a ball until the semi-finals of the Amateur Championship in 1908. Then it cost him the tide that he never again came close to winning. Garden City's older members, poised comfortably...