Word: horning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arthur E. Small, Jr. '40 and Garfield H. Horn '40, speaking for the affirmative said that subsidation already exists in many schools, resulting in better teams, bigger crowds, and more funds for other sports, while the morale of unsubsidized teams is lowered...
Children were also the concern of the Soviet Ambassador, Comrade Marcel Rosenberg, who appeared last week to be the most authoritative pro-Madrid figure next to its military defender, General Jose Miaja, a strict professional in horn-rimmed spectacles. The so-called Madrid Government had dispersed (TIME, Oct. 26, Nov. 16). Its president, Don Manuel Azana, a Republican, was in Barcelona last week and its Premier, Francisco Largo Caballero, a Marxian, was in Valencia with the rest of the Cabinet. In a manifesto they claimed to be supported by the Soviet Union and by the Mexican Republic...
Hats went off, heads were bowed as Brother Baucom boomed a prayer. Master of Hounds John Aiken Rowan raised a Texas steer horn to his lips, blew long & loud. At this signal the hounds were loosed and, amid a great uproar of babbling dogs, roaring engines and shouting men, women & children, the whole assembly moved off into the brush. Thus began :he 1936 field trials of the South Texas Wolf Hunters Association, biggest "wolf hunt" in U. S. history...
...stockholder on the other side of the room asked: "How much preferred and common stock do the directors own?" President Humphrey, pointing to a big stack of ledgers under the table, replied: "That's difficult to say. The books are here for inspection." Adjusting his horn-rimmed glasses, he read "these figures from our treasurer": Tide Water's estimated net income for the year, $11,000,000. Available for common stock dividends, $1.26 per share. Last year the profits on common were 73? per share...
...Edgar Theophilus Britten, 62, Commodore of the Cunard White Star fleet, captain of the Queen Mary; of apoplexy; stricken aboard ship in Southampton, England. Once locked in the Arctic ice for five months, once rammed by a Portuguese man-o'-war during an eleven-month voyage around the Horn, he never lost a life; was made George V's Naval Aide at his knighting...