Word: gil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Club will meet a team of Harvard employees in the Memorial Hall Rifle Range. Eleven men will go to the firing line representing the University. These participants are as follows: Jim Cooper, Lew Hyde, Hank Dunbar, Larry Davis, Slim Goldberg, Don Peden, Ted Shaul, Dave Pillsbury, C. E. Kitchin, Gil Blake, and Miller...
...East, Ivy League rooters crowed lustily for Cornell last week. Against Dartmouth, Carl Snavely's boys showed that their early-season victory over Ohio State, mightiest of the mighty Big Ten, was no flash in the pan. Playing as no Cornell team has played since the famed Gil Dobie machines of 1921-22-23, they made a good Dartmouth team look like wooden Indians, scalped them 35-to-6, chalked up their seventh successive victory this season...
...Dumaux Edmonds' novel about the effects of the American Revolution in the Mohawk Valley, on which this picture is based, may recall the trials of Lana (Claudette Colbert). Softened by the refinements of cosmopolitan Albany, she is suddenly plumped into the cis-Schenectady wilderness by her pioneering husband Gil (worried-looking Henry Fonda). Lana goes into hysterics when the first friendly Mohawk, Blue Back,* pops up in her lonely cabin...
When unfriendly Indians are egged on by British Tories to burn Lana's cabin, her baby dies at birth. Homeless Gil and Lana go to work for plainspoken, horse-faced Widow McKlennar (Edna May Oliver). There is another Indian raid, and, just as the women and children are being put to the tomahawk, Gil, who has gone for help, returns with the Yankee-Doodling Continental Army...
...lower bracket, the form favorite was Bromwich, the two-hander who plays tennis like a man batting out fungoes. In the quarter-final he easily dismissed Gil Hunt, the Washington, D. C. mathematician who sometimes uses a tennis court to demonstrate how he can balance a pencil on his bare toes. But in Jack's next match, he faced no eccentric pushover. He ran up against a 19-year-old, six-foot-one Golden Boy from California, unseeded and unsung, but the nearest thing to full Titan stature U. S. tennis has seen this season. Sidney Welby Van Horn...