Word: harold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the Future Farmers of America gathered to attend their tenth annual convention, biggest excitement of the week was announcing the name of the Star Farmer of America, selected from F. F. A. rolls three weeks ago by a committee of three headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes. Star Farmer of America was Robert Lee Bristow. With the honor went a $500 prize...
...second period Bellboy captain Ralph Murphy tossed a short, flat pass to left half Harold Pinansky, and the latter proceeded to run for a touchdown. The second Eliot fumble of the game had set the ball in position for scoring play...
...this reminded connoisseurs of scientific nomenclature of a controversy which willful Lord Rutherford stirred up some time ago after Columbia University's Harold Clayton Urey had christened doubleweight. hydrogen "deuterium." Dr. Urey had discovered doubleweight hydrogen and it seemed that he had a right to name it. The nucleus was called the "deuton." Dr. Rutherford did not like these names, especially "deuton," which he declared was likely to be confused by Englishmen with "neutron," particularly if the speaker had a cold. Lord Rutherford was for calling the atom "diplogen" and its nucleus the "diplon," and a number of British...
...Tuttle is a noteworthy addition to the Harvard Varsity this year, so are Hawkes and Wonson of Dartmouth potentialities to their team. Dick Hawkes set a new record against the Harvard Freshmen last year, and his teammate, Harold S. Wonson, folowed him in, Tuttle finishing third...
Seven Zuppke teams have topped the Big Ten. Two were undefeated and untied. But since 1930 there has been no star like Harold ("Red") Grange playing for Coach Zuppke and Illinois teams have been far from spectacular. Many an Illinois alumnus has lately grumbled that in football there is no place for sentiment. But that Illinois' attachment for Robert Zuppke was not entirely sentimental was shown by what happened last week when Illinois played Notre Dame for the first time since...