Word: great
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Born in Dallas, Tex., Bill was captain of a prep-school (Terrill) football team that overwhelmed 114-0 another team on which played Bo McMillin and Red Weaver, stars of a great Centre College eleven a few years after; went on to Dartmouth with a football scholarship, made Walter Camp's All-America second team in his senior year. Meanwhile he had spent two years in France as a first lieutenant of Artillery...
...Boston Post wired Bill, asked him to cover a post-season football game between Texas A. & M. and Centre College. The Post wanted 500 words. That day the great Bo McMillin was married, his bride sat wrapped in a blanket on the players' bench with a corsage pinned to her shoulder, and unknown A. & M. licked Centre 18-6. Bill started sending in his story, paused after 1,500 soulful words to ask whether they wanted him to stop. Back came the Post's answer: "Pour it on." So Bill sent another 1,500 words...
Died. Eliza Stone, 97, one of the first woman telegraphers in the U. S., who stuck to her post during the Great Chicago Fire until driven out of her office by flames; of old age; in the Old Ladies Home at Oswego, N. Y., on the 68th anniversary of the fire...
...Steel production rose from 88.6% to 90.3%. The Great Lakes division of efficient, profitable National Steel (which has a tonnage production monopoly in Detroit) had to close one of its 16 open-hearth steel ingot furnaces for too long deferred repairs. New York's Journal of Commerce commented sagely: ". . . May be a forerunner of a general condition in the industry...
...painting took place to protect from monetary disaster and depreciation all the canvas and exterior painting, where there is many billions of dollars involved throughout the world. . . ." Mr. Baldi's rejected work was a picture of Rudolph Valentino fighting a docile bull beneath an inset of the Great Lover as he appeared in The Son of the Sheik...