Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer bewails the lack of consideration shown to undergraduates by English 5. Although this course is intended primarily for graduates, over half its members are, in fact, undergraduates. We shudder to think of the network of wires (a coast-to-coast hook-up at least...
Copey, most famous of Harvard traditions, and now become a living legend, speaks to the nation on Saturday night at 10.45 o'clock, when he gives a reading over the Columbia station WAAB, on a nation-wide hook-up. His readings will be Kipling's Mandalay" and Leacock's "My Financial Adventures...
...squad full of them. His three ace rushers are Captain Pug Lund, who was playing his final game in the home stadium last week; Julius Alfonse, who has averaged 10 yd. every time he has been given the ball this season; and the hero of Minnesota's "Hook 'Em Cow" club, Fullback Stanislaus Clarence ("Stockyard Stan") Kostka...
...Hook 'Em Cows" are affluent, football-mad livestock commission merchants and packers of the Twin Cities. Since Stan Kostka comes from a little farm near South St. Paul, the stockyard centre of Minnesota, and has two brothers working in the stockyards, he has a natural claim to "Hook 'Em Cow" loyalty. He scored none of Minnesota's five touchdowns against Chicago last week, but his runs, swift and swaying like a cowboy, and his bowling-ball interference helped make them possible. Although he has not been a full-time player, in the first six games...
Standing 6 ft. 2 in. high, weighing 190 lb., he charged through the corn. Husking barehanded, with his hook strapped tight to his right hand, he grasped each ear off its stalk tight in his left hand, ripped away the husks with his right, snapped the ear from its stem. Bang-bang-bang went the hard husked ears of bright corn against the tall bangboard-about 40 per minute. Balko fell farther and farther behind in the race down the field, but his wagon box was filling faster. Drenched with sweat, he husked the corn on his own rows quicker...