Word: man-to-man
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...heroine of sentimental comedy-drama. Privately, Miss Gaynor likes to read In Tune with the Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine, has a freckled nose. Hell Divers (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a successful merger of two well known types of cinema entertainment: aeronautical spectacle (like Hell's Angels, Dirigible) and man-to-man comedy (like What Price Glory, The Big Parade). It is also a loud advertisement for the U. S. Navy. One of the shortcomings of Hell Divers is the fact that spectacle and plot are not well integrated. Parts which are pure spectacle are noisy, informative...
Such men were prime examples by which a World Conference on Work for the Blind, which met in Manhattan last week, could prove that the blind and the purblind*can succeed in man-to-man competition, if given opportunity. The limits of their ability are far wider than commonly supposed. The necessity of providing work for the blind is great. The U. S. has 100,000 blind, the world six to ten million. Vast numbers could support themselves...
...Crimson team has been using a man-to-man defense in its last two games, its attack has been improving steadily under the direction of Coach Madison Sayles '27. The strongest cogs in the forward lines have been N. N. Cochrane '32, T. I. Nido '30, and Wayne Hobbs '31, each of whom scored two goals in the recent game with Dartmouth...
...Indiana and Standard Oil of New Jersey become competitors, invaded each other's territory both in the U. S. and abroad. The New Jersey company is a Rockefeller stronghold. Hence, the result of the Rockefeller-Stewart fight in the Indiana Company may be of far more than man-to-man significance...
...ideal way to stage the intercollegiate quarter-mile event would be on a course without a bend, but such a plan is impracticable. The only scheme of conducting the event in lanes is fair to the competitors and yet not entirely satisfactory because the man-to-man element is diminished by the staggered starting marks. So long as the race is conducted under present conditions there is bound to be some jockeying, but I think it is to the credit of the I.C.A.A.A.A. competitors that the championship races down through the years have been fought in clean, manly...