Word: greenleaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pool addicts who watched them, banked closely under the shaded lamps of Allinger's Billiard Academy, knew that only two had a real chance. They were Erwin Rudolph, onetime Cleveland office boy, a reckless and brilliant player who won last year; and tall, slick-haired Ralph Greenleaf, the handsomest indoor athlete in the U.S., who started to play billiards in Monmouth, Ill., when he was seven, became city champion at twelve, finished fourth in his first world's championship four years later...
Unlike that of most prodigies. Ralph Greenleaf's skill has improved with years. At 32, he was playing for his eleventh championship last week. Greenleaf's dignity did not permit him to emulate his confreres who, before a match, changed their dinner coats for black silk playing jackets. He wore his evening clothes throughout the tournament, entranced spectators by the suave and cautious ritual with which he filed his cue-point, sandpapered it, chalked it, then powdered his sharp-fingered hands. Only once was Greenleaf ruffled. That was in his seventh match when he missed his favorite cube...
...beating that Ponzi received thereafter-125 to minus 14-was the most severe on record in the championship. Three nights later, when Frank Taberski lost to him, Greenleaf was assured of a tie. His closest match was against young George Kelly of Philadelphia, nephew of Playwright George Kelly who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. Greenleaf's victory -126 to 119-gave him the championship prize of $1,200, in addition to his salary of $6,000 for three weeks' play, and one-sixth of the gate receipts...
...article recently published by the United States Daily brings further light upon that grotesquely magnified problem, "the monetary value of a college education." This time, however, the undergraduate will find the light to be of a chilling blue color, for Walter J. Greenleaf, "associate specialist in higher education" at the Federal Office of Education, finds that the questionnaires, surveys, and periodically issued ratings are at best, unreliable and misleading...
...Studies in English Grotesque Satire; Professors Arthur Burkhard, for the publication of a book on "The German Sense of Form"; S. H. Cross, for making a study of the History of Russian literature of the Kiev Period; Mr. T. F. Currier, for the completion of a Bibliography of John Greenleaf Whittier; Professors W. S. Ferguson, for the publication of "The Treasurers of Athena"; J. D. M: Ford, for the publication of a Bibliography of Cervantes, for continuing his work of the Harvard Council on Hispano-American Studies, for the preparation of a Grammar of Old French...