Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dignified Sun broke out with a series of poker-faced articles on WPA Polo: What It Costs To Play ("a moderately good polo pony can be bought for less than $7,500"). Sculptor Jack Lambert offered a bederbied trophy for a politicians' polo tournament. Reporters pestered Park Board President Frank Durkee by asking whether WPA would supply ponies and stabling...
Unknown to itself and to the U. S. public is the real American Federation of Labor. It is a jack of 1,619 trade unions, a many-millioned mass which has virtually no credo because within it is every credo under the U. S. sun. But there are other A. F. of L.s. The one usually labeled in newsprint as "the A. F. of L." is a tight little club of 17 executive councilmen who expound and at intervals alter the otherwise missing credo. Last is the A. F. of L. which goes on show as "the annual convention...
Setting records is nothing new for Mrs. Howe. As Dorothy lona Campbell, she won the U. S. women's golf championship in 1909, the year she came to the U. S. from her native Scotland. As Dorothy Campbell Hurd (after marrying Clubman Jack V. Hurd of Pittsburgh), she established the greatest record of any woman golfer in the world: three Scottish championships, two British championships, three U. S. championships, three Canadian championships, and winner of an average of 20 tournaments a year since she won her first prize in 1895. Now married to a Princeton banker, Dorothy lona Campbell...
Although Army finally lost out to the Lions and their ace, Sid Luckman, the Harlow scouts are convinced the Army team is "much improved" over last year's aggregation. Cadets who saw service last year in the Stadium are Captain Jim Schwenk at quarterback, Art Frontczak at fullback, little Jack Little at guard, and tackles Harry Stella and Jim Lotozo...
Earl Foster chalked up his third touchdown in two days when he scored early in the first quarter after a 60-yard Deacon march. The conversion was good. The other Kirkland touchdown came in the last quarter on a 29-yard off-tackle smash by Jack McClure...