Word: lester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skaters like Frank Boucher, Ranger centre, or Bill Cook and his brother Bun, the wings, could stand being bumped around by checks like Siebert, Button, Smith. The Rangers were playing all their games away from home. In the second game their goalie's eye was cut open and Lester Patrick, manager and coach, a star defense man 20 years ago, put on the pads and got in goal himself. After this game (TIME, April 16), the president of the National Hockey league appointed a new goalie for the Rangers-Joe Miller, late of the Americans...
Against the heavier Maroons the Rangers lost the first game, 2-0. In the second game each team had a goal when Goalie Chabot of the Rangers was hit in the eye with a puck, taken to the hospital. Coach Lester Patrick, famed defense man in his day, put on the goalie's pads, kept goal for his team, stopped all rushes, was wildly cheered. In the overtime period Johnson passed to Boucher who whipped the puck into the Montreal goal, winning the game 2-1, with two games left to play...
Retirement. Lieut. Lester J. Maitland in the Herald-Tribune said that Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh "is through
Because aeronautical engineers are at the very front of motor development, Lester J. Hendershot, young Pittsburgh civil engineer working for the U. S. Topographical Survey, secretly presented his new type electric motor to such men at Pittsburgh, Detroit and Manhattan last week. Without any connection to any apparent power store, the machine ran for hours. The energy came, said the inventor, from the electricity accumulated by the earth in its daily and yearly rotations. Quite probable, acknowledged physicists, but not more of that planetary charge can be continuously tapped to operate more than a toy motor. Frankly skeptical, they awaited...
...POLITICAL NOTES); Governor Louis Franck of the National Bank of Belgium, to be introduced; Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court and several senior judges of the circuit courts of appeals, to pay respects; supreme officers of the tall Cedars of Lebanon; † Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger, U. S. A., to be taken out on the south lawn of the White House and given Distinguished Flying Crosses for the flight to Hawaii; Chief Justice Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court (again), with the eight associate justices, to pay respects...