Word: howards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Young Howard Kelly went to the Hopkins in 1889, remained there until 1919 when he resigned as professor emeritus of gynecology to devote his time to Baltimore's Howard A. Kelly Hospital, which he had founded in 1892. During his 30 years at Hopkins he achieved fame as the inventor of various modern kidney, uterine and ovarian operations, as a pioneer in the use of cocaine anesthesia, as the inventor of the Kelly cystoscope and proctoscope, instruments for examining the bladder and rectum...
...Kelly's joys is the career of his son Edmund Bredow, who teaches gynecology at the Hopkins. Only real son bequeathed the Hopkins by any of its four founders, he carries with him his father's tales of golden days and keeps green the memory of Howard Kelly's glorious surgical exploits...
...minutes Howard Jones's U. S. C. boys, led by Quarterback Grenville Landsdell, outsmarted their visitors, smartly scored two touchdowns while preventing the famed ground-gainers from getting even one first down. Then California decided to try an air route to the goal line. It worked. But it was too late. Two minutes later it was all over, 13-to-7. And the statistics told an extraordinary tale: U. S. C. had gained 378 yards to California's 68; 20 first downs to California's two. Snipping California's string of 18 consecutive victories, Southern California...
...turf) to such a point that even folk whose only acquaintance with a horse was a nod at the morning milkman's were arguing over The Admiral and The Biscuit. Owner Samuel Riddle (who once refused $250,000 for The Admiral) and Owner Charles S. Howard (who bought The Biscuit from the late Ogden Mills for $7,500 two weeks after he was unclaimed for $6,000) finally agreed to a special race on Memorial Day at Belmont Park-for $100,000, winner-take...
Ballyhooed as "the race of the century," the magnificent bubble burst a few days before the scheduled rendezvous when Owner Howard scratched The Biscuit because of a weak knee. Disgruntled racing fans felt cheated, muttered unpleasant words about Owner Howard's weak knees. When a subsequent attempt to get the two horses on the same track at the same time failed at the last moment, popular interest subsided...