Word: goale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hoosier birth (1867) gave Graham Phillips a natural bent toward politics and writing. College friendship with an ambitious young backwoodsman named Albert J. Beveridge settled him down, helped him choose the goal which he pursued with solemn fixity to his death. The years of reporting and editorial writing under the late great Editors Charles A. Dana and Joseph Pulitzer were a time of learning weapons, storing mental ammunition. As a friend afterward wrote, "He believed that more people would read intelligently and heed the warnings and lessons which he felt inspired to offer through the medium of novels, than they...
...Western Home Monthly (headquarters: Winnipeg) found its readers broke. The magazine "went national," guaranteed an A. B. C. circulation of 180,000 by October 1932, a boost of some 60,000 over the distribution it then had. With a whoop of delight, last week the publishers announced that the goal had been reached. To celebrate they changed the journal's name to National Home Monthly. Subscribers had been tracked down by the hundreds throughout the verdant Eastern Provinces and as far as cold grey Newfoundland...
...appropriate party last year to a merger with Brown Bros. & Co., forming Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. Another Harriman venture is Harriman & Co., a small firm doing a lucrative business in commercial paper. Virile Son Harriman enjoys sport as well as work, is an expert polo player with a 4-goal handicap. In business his luck has been to tackle situations at bad moments. He has always had a sentimental attachment for Union Pacific, from which by hard work, spectacular plunging and foresight his father hammered fame & fortune. He was a U. P. director while at Yale, sometimes appearing at meetings...
Harvard held its two goal handicap lead up to 6-4 in the fourth inning when Princeton forged ahead of Harvard to put the score at 7-6 in her favor. Lead by a spectacular comeback staged by L. S. Dillingham '34 and C. C. Rumsey '34 in the sixth chukker, the Crimson horsemen took the game into their own hands and piled up five points...
Harvard is rated as only an 8-goal team, while its opponents are given 23 goals. There is little chance of a Crimson victory, especially as the Blue aggregation is bringing its own poles down for the occasion. Harvard has already succumbed to P.M.C., 16-2, and to Princeton, 15-7, while Yale has run up an easy string of victories over its various opponents, defeating P.M.C., 11-2, and Princeton...