Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might have been a visiting Rotarian being received in the Yard this morning by a group of brothers. There was hand-shaking and calls such as "hiya chief" or "good to see you back, Charlie...
...next Pirate pitch into the left field stands for the one and only hundred thousand dollar home run in baseball history. The other day reporters asked him when he would name substitute O'Dea as starting catcher, since he himself had two sprained fingers on his throwing hand. He replied that he would push in the teeth of the writer who said O'Dea would play today. O'Dea may have to catch this afternoon, but Gabby Hartnett, active or inactive, has roused the cheers of the baseball world for the "Southern" side of the 1938 World Series...
...Farm Credit Administration. Accepting "with sincere regret" the resignation of FCA Governor William I. Myers, who is returning to Cornell to teach, Franklin Roosevelt promoted Deputy Governor Forrest Frank Hill to his job. "Frosty" Hill has been with FCA since it was created in 1933 to merge a handful of uncoordinated agencies and save the U. S. farmer from foreclosure. As a boy he worked on a wheat farm in Saskatchewan, got a first-hand knowledge of soil problems. A shrewd banker with an incredible memory for figures, Governor Hill still talks like the farmer he was born in Kansas...
...read a book on golf, bought four clubs apiece (brassie, No. 2 iron, mashie and putter) as recommended by the main street sporting-goods store. A few months later they not only had all the students golf-conscious but Daughter Lawson-a caddy carrying her four clubs in his hand like sticks of kindling wood- survived two qualifying rounds of the women's Southern golf championship...
Thus the University is faced with a dilemma of the usual two-horned variety: on the one hand it must be reluctant to see the College becoming a group of vocational schools, on the other it must realize that compulsory courses running counter to a student's interest and aptitude are of little or no value...