Word: ky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place eight men in a boat and await the fusion of the differences into a smooth and well balanced machine. Both systems have been used; the success of the latter has been more marked because of its eventual merging of slight variations under the influence of one central idea. Ky Elright, at California, stands forth as the coach who has had the greatest success in pressing the method to its limits. The California oarsmen are bred in the same rowing saddles, as it were, from month to month. Practically no substitutions are made, and when they are they become permanent...
March 19, 20-Louisville Kennel Club Show; at Louisville, Ky...
...Whiskey Capital." The benefits of Prohibition in Louisville, Ky.?once the "whiskey capital" of the U. S.?were depicted by its citizen Henry H. Johnson who vowed that the country club expression, "the 19th hole," was now unknown in his State. Resorting to statistics, he declared that Louisville's rate of population growth had increased eight times in the last ten years, that its factory output had doubled, that its property values had almost trebled. Declared he: "Ninety per cent of Louisville's prosperity is due to the fact that we got rid of the blasting, blighting liquor...
Life Saver. Patrick Henry Callahan, paint and varnish man of Louisville, Ky., oldtime friend of William Jennings Bryan, ardent Dry Catholic, indefatigable letter-writer and publicist, told the committee of the lives Prohibition had saved. His statistics: alcoholism, 26,400; cirrhosis of the liver, 42,300; Bright's disease, 62,100. Declared Mr. Callahan: "With undisputed statistics I have shown from merely three diseases where prohibitionists have saved more [U. S.] lives than were lost in action in the Great War.* A hundred thousand lives are not to be sniffed...
...Mitchellsburg, Ky., 51 years ago, a dying lady received a sweet potato from her husband. Unable to eat it, she placed the sweet potato on a shelf...