Word: hill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charley Lutz is ready for a bigger and better year than ever from his forward spot, and his running mate, Chet Legg, carries plenty of scoring punch. Hill Humes is well ahead in the scrap for the pivot post and Lupe Lupien is a fixture as one of the guards. The veteran Fred Hockel has held down the other guard position ever since the first practice session, and he has done a fine job filling the shoes of last year's Captain Vern Struck...
Although there is but little hope at the present for more than one practice a week, the Yardlings have two games scheduled before Christmas. The first is with Mount Saint Charles School at Providence, Rhode Island, on December 10, and the second game is with the Belmont Hill School on December 15. Where the Belmont Hill game will be played is uncertain since the Freshmen will not have their new rink in time...
...certainly not true that New England winters are any less severe now than they were in the "good old days" declared Charles F. Brooks '11, professor of meteorology and director of the Blue Hill Observatory, in an interview yesterday at Geographical Institute, while the freezing wind howled outside...
...temperature has dropped only 1 1/2 degrees, which is the equivalent of the weather 30 miles to the south in 1888. The last half-century's coldest winter, in fact, was only five years ago, when the mercury dropped to 21 below zero, At the meteorological station on Blue Hill there is, from New Bedford in 1812, a record which shows that our forefathers did not have any more snow and ice than we do today...
...priced watches, had done little business during Depression. It was run by two quiet, conservative brothers, Fred and George Gruen, sons of Founder Dietrich Gruen, who died in 1911 after making the first thin pocket watch by flattening out the movement. With a Swiss chalet-style factory called Time Hill in Cincinnati, and another in Biel, Switzerland, the Gruens operated along conservative lines, licensed one or two dealers to a city, clung to the prestige of their name regardless of profits...