Word: interests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weak idea of the University having two football teams. Some real enthusiasm might have been engendered had the Big Ten Universities all put Freshmen football teams into contest with each other (since Freshmen cannot play upon the regular teams), but to expect a Michigan "B" team to create much interest when playing some other university's "B" team is, as was proven last Fall, impossible...
...blacksmith is Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, a personage well able to return with interest the lightning of Cardinal Gasparri's glance. Unquestionably these two sons of peasants are the greatest Italian statesmen of their century. They met face to face, last week, in the Lateran Palace, an austere and gloomy pile, presented to the papacy 16 centuries ago by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. Successive pontiffs resided in the Lateran until removal of the papal residence to Avignon (1309 A.D.). It contains the Sanctum Sanctorum, Chapel, "Mother Church of Christen-dom"; reached by a'flight of steps...
...Lampoon also mentioned the "intrusive interest of Doctor Harkness. A $13,000,000 shot of cocaine that will whoop things-up for a while. But oh, God, what a morning after there will...
...protégeé, John J. Raskob, in working for the Democratic party. The rest of the du Fonts are Dry and Republican. A polite fissure among the du Fonts and within G. M. C. was apparent while the campaign was raging. Now that it is over, Pierre du Font's interest is in The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...
...development of A. G. Spalding & Bros, originally coincided with the de-velopment of baseball. In more recent years it has branched out to parallel increased U. S. interest in track, football, basketball, tennis, golf. The company was founded in 1876, the year that Mr. Spalding was pitcher and manager of the old Chicago team for which "Pop" Anson and Evangelist Billy Sunday played. It was Spalding's Chicago team which first appeared in regulation baseball uniforms. It was Spalding's company which standardized early baseballs and developed the modern baseball bat with the pronounced bulge in its business...