Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looked very informal with its "heads-up" style; it gave the center time to come up and growl at the Harvard line before being joined by his mates . . . Little Nick Mellen was outweighed 60 lbs. by opposing guard Herring, but the latter spent all afternoon picking himself off the ground . . . Austie Harding's choice of plays was uncanny during the second half; he proved himself a great team spark . . . Hardest tackle seen on Soldiers Field this year was by backer-up Cliff Wilson and Joe Gardella on Mountain; the latter fumbled, causing a touchback, and he was never himself thereafter...
Every patriot knows that the U. S. flag should never touch ground or trail in water. In Newark, N. J. superpatriotic Scoutmaster Stephen F. Walker of Boy Scout Troop No. 77 shuddered last year when two aluminum reproductions of the great seal of the U. S. were embedded in the floor of Newark's Post Office Building, where heedless visitors trod on them. Scoutmaster Walker protested to the postmaster, to Postmaster General Farley, to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, to the President of the U. S. Then he enrolled other superpatriots in his crusade, marched in a cordon...
With alumni placement "satisfactorily high" and enrollment equaling the highest mark yet reached in the history of the graduate center, the Business School swings into another year as the training ground for financial wizards to come...
...discuss the Administration's long-bruited plan to foster a billion dollars worth of utility expansion for purposes of national defence. Taking the hint, utility stocks soared to new highs for the year on the New York Exchange, led the industrial and railroad averages also to new high ground...
...broadcasting was a short shunt and the upshot was station WLW, most powerful in the world along with Moscow's RVI. WLW sends out such big charges (500,000 watts) that neighbors report hearing hillbilly bands in their drainpipes and lighting electric bulbs with wires stuck in nearby ground...