Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...block signal while just ahead a freight backed into a siding to clear the main line. No. 8's flagman sprinted back with red lantern and track torpedoes. Several minutes behind No. 8 out of Binghamton was a fast milk train (No. 2). At the throttle was Engineer Martin ("Biddy") King, 62, heavyset, red-faced veteran of the Erie service. As he approached B D tower, the block signal changed from red (stop) to yellow (caution). An air whistle tooted in his cab as part of the automatic train control system. To acknowledge that signal and keep his train...
...ours on a similar expedition the week before.) Now if you need further proof of this tale of piscatorial prowess, here's Provensen pictured with his shark; also a picture of that hero resting from his arduous labors reading my blood-stained copy of TIME. MARTIN CODEL...
Encouraged to team together by Bernon S. Prentice, non-playing captain of this year's U. S. Davis Cup team, Lott & Stoefen proved one thing by their victory last week: that Chicago's hairy, hard-bitten George Martin Lott Jr. is the best doubles player in the U. S., if not in the world. Last week's doubles title was his fourth. He won in 1928 with John F. Hennessey, in 1929 and 1930 with John Hope Doeg. Saturnine, good-humored, Lott's doubles game is noteworthy for steadiness, tactical brilliance, unwillingness to be discouraged...
...Paris, famed Henri Cochet, No. 1 tennist of France, finally stopped denying rumors, increasingly persistent for the last two years, that he would turn professional. His plans: a series of matches, with Martin Plaa for partner, v. William Tilden II and Bruce Barnes, late this month...
...Martin and his wife had faced a lot of things together, finally the poorhouse; when they found they were to be separated they promised they would signal each other with their lights, and were told it was against the rules...