Word: giante
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...doctor advises me, because of my sinus condition, that it would be inadvisable to attempt any road trips with the club this season, so I suggested to Mr. Stoneham [Giant owner] that another manager be appointed. . . . We therefore agreed on Bill Terry [Giant first baseman, whom Owner Stoneham last spring threatened to 'drive out of baseball' when he refused the $15,000 salary offered him]. . . . I want it fully understood that Terry will have full and complete charge of the team and will have to assume entire responsibility therefor...
...twelve years ago there arrived in Sayville, L. I., where I. T. & T.'s giant wireless masts rise out of a sea of scrub oak, a baldheaded, wizened little Negro with God on his mind. He opened a free employment agency, found many a job for black men and white. Two years later he bought a small frame house at No. 72 Macon St., took in the homeless, fed them, clothed them, black & white. His disciples increased, his house grew, followers came on foot, in limousines, by the busload. Sayville's Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance forbidding...
Unaffected by the wind was the Western Conference shot put record (49 ft. 5½ in.) made by Minnesota's Clarence Munn. Two Negroes named Brooks won titles in the field. Michigan's Negro Brooker Brooks threw a discus 148 ft. 1¼ in., beating Illinois' giant Frank Purma, Kansas farmboy who has done 154 ft. 1½ in. Chicago's Negro John Brooks, a 142-lb. student of political science, crowded the Conference record broad jump, made by another Negro Dehart Hubbard, with a predicted jump...
Like a balky horse which breaks into a run when headed toward the stable, the laggard giant DO-X flew briskly homeward to Europe last week. With a working crew of 13 and Fraulein Antoine Strassman, German aviatrix, as "assistant purser" (because no passengers were allowed), the flying boat bent a safe zig-zag course from New York via Newfoundland and the Azores, the first jump of 1,100 mi. being the longest. Favored by wind and sky, her twelve rebuilt Curtiss engines roaring in perfect chorus, the DO-X touched Southampton on the fifth day, pointed for Lake Constance...
Near Ball's Wharf, among the scattering of poor white farmers, lives Luther Harris, a great six-foot yellow giant whom all, even mules and bulls, respect. It is rumored that he and his relatives the Batkins, who live up river in the Hehonee swamps, are of Indian descent. It is an Indian that Luther would like to be so that his daughter Sis could break the color line, go off to government school at the Tohannock Indian reservation. Semmes Maiden, a young lawyer from Battleburg, the State capital, capitalizes on this desire of Luther's, persuades...