Word: headway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Philadelphia, Pa., Nov, 11, 1929--The Harvard University soccer team lost a hard game to Pennsylvania yesterday afternoon at Rivers Field, Philadelphia, 4 to 0. The Crimson eleven was quite outclassed by its opponents, and could make little headway against them...
...backfield shifts point toward the breaking up of the second ball-carrying quartet for the Dartmouth game. Putnam and Wood were alternating as signal-callers, with Gilligan, Devens, and Potter playing halfbacks and fullback respectively. In the Army game Gilligan showed inability to make headway against a strong combination, and the end of the week may find him off the first eleven. The promotion of Potter to first string fullback shows that all is not yet settled as to who will substitute for the injured Harper. Last week it was White, but he was playing on Team B yesterday afternoon...
...such dash and precision that they scored five times without giving the Greentrees another goal. Captain Iglehart tied the score on a free shot just before the final gong. In the extra period he smacked another one through. The Midwests, able individualists though they were, could make no headway at all against the Old Aiken system of feeding, riding off, keeping in position. While the Midwests bunched on the ball, Old Aiken deployed and rode around them until the score...
Pulmotors were carried into the building from the roof and applied to the victims as headway was made into the smoke-filled rooms. A few of those revived were able to walk to ladders and descend. The great majority were carried out. The lawns adjoining were littered with the bodies of the dead and dying, all yellow from the gas. Rescue squads worked over them with pulmotors. Only those who received immediate oxygen treatment survived. One man who had escaped said, "The gas didn't bother me. Help the others who are dying." Five minutes later he collapsed...
...South the union labor movement has made the smallest headway. Of old U. S. ancestry, the workers were individualists, long trained to stand alone. Fanatically religious (mostly "wash-foot" Baptists), they viewed organized labor as Communism, and Communism, they were told, turned people against God. They had no fear of Negro competition in the mills because they knew that the blackamoor, inefficient at best with machinery, was lulled to sleep by its rhythmic motion (soporific hypnotism). But now they are no longer "poor white trash." They have begun to taste the power of combined action, to strike for what they...