Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field goals and eight fouls for a total of eight points. HARVARD PRINCETON Lowman (Grondahl, Kuhn, Shirk), l.f. l.f., Vruwink (Fallon, Buddington) White (McGowan, Heckel), r.f. r.f. Woodward (Parker, Givens) Gray (Herrick), c. c., Sauter Struck (Dampeer, Snell), r.g. r.g., Hobler (Parker) Lupien (Wills, Litman), l.g. l.g., Scofield (Hill...
...Francisco's Art Commission stood deadlocked last week after months of bitter bickering. The question at issue was whether or not the city should authorize the erection of a 180-ft. stainless steel statue of St. Francis on Christmas Tree Point, across the city from famed Telegraph Hill. Leading the opposition were Banker Herbert Fleishhacker and Mrs. Adolph B. Spreckels; champions for the defense were Artist William Gaskin and a Mrs. Marie de Lavega Welch West. Words grew hotter, tempers frayed...
...China. When Hollywood started to produce The Good Earth in 1933, it set out to make its picture equally superlative. Twenty writers, including Tess Slesinger, Marc Connelly, Talbot Jennings and Claudine West tried their band at adapting the stage version written by Owen and Donald Davis. Director George Hill went to China, returned with a boatload of authentic properties, presently committed suicide. Victor Fleming took the helm, quit with malaria. Sidney Franklin finished the job. Meanwhile the presiding genius, Irving Thalberg, died, left Al Lewin the production problems. Near Chatsworth, Calif., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer rented 500 acres, carved a replica...
Headlining the series of promising matches will be the heavyweight clash between Hill Glendinning of Harvard and Charba Toll of the Tigers. Glendinning will give away approximately 40 pounds to his rival who has been famous for two years for his tackle play on the Princeton football team. Toll is 6 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 230 pounds and already this season has a victory to his credit over Captain Joe Dowd of Penn State, considered one of the foremost heavyweight, wrestlers in intercollegiate ranks. Glendinnning has been unbeaten in two years of Varsity competition for the Crimson...
...Paul's businessmen had done themselves proud. Lacking the $100,000 munificence of red-whiskered Louis W. Hill,† who endowed the second and third St. Paul winter carnivals in 1916 and 1917, they had raised the expenses of this year's show by contributions and public sale of $1 carnival buttons. Citizens had saved their Christmas trees, donated them for street decorations. The WPA had furnished men to build a five-story ice palace, 191 ft. long, 70 ft. wide, 60 ft. high. Business and civic groups selected beauteous stenographers, secretaries, sales girls as their "queens...