Word: hunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like hot cakes. Pastures were so dry about Chippewa Falls, Wis., Guy R. Jewett said, that cows gave powdered milk. From Denver, 1933 Champion Philip McCary complained of the badge: "It isn't gold; it's brass. It isn't a diamond it's a hunk of glass...
...Cushman. curator of the American Museum of Natural History and an expert on ambergris, explained: "I mean that is bad news for me. It means another barrage of letters from every Tom, Dick & Harry who finds a hunk of rotten fish anywhere along the Atlantic Coast." Last big U. S. find of "ambergris" was by poverty-stricken residents of Bolinas Beach, Calif. (TIME, March 19). Their treasure proved valueless. So do most of the substances-usually soap, wax, paint, tallow, mud, wood, coke, clinkers, decayed fish-with which wild-eyed people rush to chemical laboratories to learn whether they have...
Ohio State's student body and "downtown coaches" made things too unpleasant for Coach Sam Willaman, who last week quit, signed with Western Reserve. Duquesne's Elmer Layden last week formally took over at Notre Dame, where he succeeds Heartly ("Hunk") Anderson. To succeed him as director of athletics, Duquesne got Christy Flanagan, former Notre Dame back, lately assistant coach at Navy...
Heartly ("Hunk") Anderson, who lost his job coaching football at Notre Dame following the team's disastrous season, met his successor Elmer Layden at last week's convention of the American Football Coaches' Association in Chicago. Gripping hands heartily they wished each other luck. Hunk Anderson had just signed a three-year contract to coach at North Carolina State. Then they listened to a discussion of how coaches can safeguard their jobs...
...have stopped thinking. This gang may go out and play its head off and win or it may beat itself on its mistakes as it has been doing all season.''-Notre Dame's Coach Heartly (''Hunk") Anderson before last week's game with Army...