Word: hub
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coach. Result was an unusually big turnout for the team: 30 (including two Japanese) of Reed's 546 students. Except on rainy days (when less than a full team showed up), they practiced about an hour and a half a day. Because of lack of time, Coaches McElroy & Hub-bard showed their pupils how to score a touchdown but not how to kick a goal afterwards. Reed's team proceeded to whip Multnomah College (a Y. M. C. A. school) and Pacific College of Newberg, Ore. (a Quaker school once attended by Herbert Hoover), each by the margin...
...climax came two weeks ago when he published the membership of the League Against War and Fascism. Many names were merely on the mailing list. And although the great majority had no notion of the League's Communist affiliations, the complete list was published and the resulting hub-bub forced one school teacher to resign her job, and the rest to become targets of public suspicion...
Last week the heroine of this legend was once more thinking of the German Army and The Netherlands' floodgates. Nowadays you can stop an army by flooding just over its hub caps, and Lieut. General Baron J. G. G. van Voorst tot Voorst, Commander in the Field of the Dutch Army, had already splashed around on his horse through some flood-test areas (see cut). Lieut. General and Queen were ready to flood some more. Though it had rained heavily off & on for three weeks, The Netherlands opened additional dikes to perform what was described as preliminary "saturation...
...proper British institution, the fourth editorial (known as the Light Leader) of the London Times. In its characteristic tone, half-bulldog, half-maiden aunt, the Light Leader thus saluted Eros' departure: "From this moment onwards nobody can doubt that there is a war on, for London is the hub of the universe, and Piccadilly Circus is the hub of London, and Eros is the hub of Piccadilly Circus. How then can the universe revolve, when its hub's hub's hub is missing? . . . Until Eros returns to his perch . . . all of us . . . will be wearing an invisible...
...Here at hub of island with many spokes converging...