Word: homed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside of Captain Charley Lutz at forward, an outstanding ball handler and shot, the starting five for the home squad will be composed entirely of Sophomores. Bill Webber at the other forward post, Bud Finegan at center, and Ed Buckley and Joe Romano at the guards were all members of last year's speedy Yardling five that ended the season with a record of twelve wins and two defeats...
...team is far better offensively than defensively, being hampered in its back-board work by its lack of height. But it will be helped by the fact that the game is on the home floor, a good bit longer than Hangar Gym, on which the Tech quintet is used to playing...
Most splendiferous museum piece in Philadelphia's tradition-cluttered Independence Square is the twelve-story palace that houses 48-year-old Curtis Publishing Co. Most imposing thing about Curtis Publishing Co. is the combined circulation (8,406,431) of its publications: Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman, Jack & Jill. Much less imposing are Curtis Publishing's dividends to its 18,961 stockholders (as of last...
...secession into one, making a packed picture of which he suspects "there are some pages over which people will stop and wonder." It was a time of growing violence, growing paradox, growing economic change and bewilderment: "of [Northern] abolitionists hanged, shot, stabbed, mutilated, disfigured facially by vitriol, their home doorways painted with human offal ... of the 260,000 free Negroes of the South owning property valued at $25,000,000, one of them being the wealthiest landowner in Jefferson County, Va. ... of Southern planters and merchants being $200,000,000 in debt to the North and chiefly to the money...
...Amid falling snow at midnight, out of a carriage bundled a mass of shawls and woolen scarfs one winter evening to ring the doorbell at the home of a Virginia Congressman. Inside the house a manservant began unwinding the bundle. Out of it came the Secretary of State, General Lewis Cass, born in 1782, seventy-nine years old, whimpering: 'Mr. Pryor, I have been hearing about secession for a long time-and I would not listen. But now I am frightened, sir, frightened!'"A month before Lincoln's inauguration the Confederacy was already under arms. And young...