Word: mats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lowry has had some experience at the mat sport, but Peabody has had none. The third ranking left guard during most of the football campaign, Jim Grunig, is also competing for the unlimited grappling job. After the Christmas holidays. Vern Miller is planning to join the contingent, thus giving the wrestling squad the biggest football representation it has had in years...
...Schwarze Korps rapped those who think the present return to corsets, bustles, "ribbons, lace and pleats" would fill the bill. Corsets are bad for women's health, especially if pregnant. As for hats: "How could a woman look well with an odd Australian stork perched on a beer mat on top of her head?" But the editors pulled their punches to meet feminine critics, explained earnestly: "All this is no fulmination against lipstick, powder and silk stockings; quite the contrary. . . . Every woman should be beautiful; every woman should have the opportunity to accentuate her natural charms . . . so that...
...Dayton's northern outskirts lies a long, lusciously green field named Wright, shaped like an arrowhead, flanked by a long row of hangars and shops and a broad cluster of brick laboratory buildings. This is the heart and brain of the Air Corps, the home base of its Matériel Division, where every item of equipment used, from a gauge needle to a 15-ton bomber, is examined and tested before purchase; where its advance thinking and performance (blind flight, stratosphere, automatic control, radio research) are done; where its medical studies are pursued. Here come all bids...
General Henry H. Arnold, chief of the Corps, officiated at a luncheon for oldtime pilots, the air industry and the press in the administration building at Wright Field. He pinned Distinguished Flying Crosses on four officers,† after General George H. Brett, chief of the Matériel Division, had introduced distinguished guests. Among the latter, the men who must build-their nation's wings up to world war strength in two years eyed particularly a chunky Congressman from Akron, Chairman Dow Harter of the aviation subgroup of the House Military Affairs Committee. For he was trying to help...
Daughaday emerges from a highly successful season on the mat, having lost but two very close contests, one of which he made up for in the Easterns by beating his man decisively. For the second time, he took the third place position in the 165 pound weight in the Eastern championships. He comes from Winnotka, Illinois, and prepared for Harvard at the North Shore Country Day School...