Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blocked punt was the cause of the second score, when Gordy Day broke through the Rambler line to knock down Jack Bronston's kick on the Dorm goal line. Hank Burgess fell on the ball for the score and Ed Edmunds made the extra point on an off-tackle slant...
Leverett's frequent fumbles were the chief bar preventing them from running up a high score, but their defense was air-tight. Edmunds shone in the backfield, while Ben Wilcox, tackle, and the two ends, Jack Hughes and Dick Dawes, were outstanding...
Last week, after the sinking of the 5,051-ton British freighter Clement in the South Atlantic, merchant mariners under the Union Jack had a fearful old familiar phrase on their tongues. Red-faced first mates on the British India boats chunkin' to Rangoon, the paler men who dodge growlers on the foggy way to Greenland, big men on the cold Cape haul-all were nervous on the watch and reminiscent at mess because of a capricious, romantic, dangerous ghost that was out kissing British ships again: the German raider...
...last week most of the first-magnitude folk in radio's great free-show firmament were in their places for the long winter evenings: Kate Smith, Bing Crosby, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Charlie McCarthy. The Philharmonic had arranged to broadcast on tour; a hallowed hush awaited Arturo Toscanini next week in NBC's starchy Studio 8H. Rudy Vallée, Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson were major absentees. There was no newcomer with the mature charm of 1938's prize find, Information Please, but radio 1939 turned up an idea that threatens to sweep the nation like...
...Coach Jack Carr was not overly depressed by the team's loss, although it was a blow to lose the first game. The team showed its inexperience, but it also showed definite potentialities...