Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pass was trhrown by the Crimson all afternoon, most of the ground being gained between the tackles. The play which worked with almost monotonoun regularity was Struck's tackle jab on which he reversed his field as soon as he crossed the line of scrimmage. But this does not mean that no deception was employed. Struck often travelled several yards before the Princeton secondary turned from chasing a decoy tail back busy rounding one of the flanks. That Struck did most of the ball carrying was strategy in itself. The whole Princeton attack was designed to stop Torb Macdonald...
From the viewpoint of automobile makers & sellers, the Automobile Show is considered the best means of "kicking-off the industry to a good start." To the industry, this year's kick-off looks good because the slight changes in car appearance mean that few expensive changes in plant and tooling were necessary to launch the new models. The lack of newcomers and new gadgets means that dealers can continue in their accustomed sales routines. And prices, already raised some 5% in August, are generally being raised some 5% more with the show. Having ridden a rough road...
Wired Radio, Inc., out of which Muzak Corp. grew in 1934, had been incorporated in 1922, was about ready to start opera tions when Depression intervened. Mean while, similar enterprises achieved an enormous success in Europe. The process (whose U. S. name of Muzak is a trade mark perversion of Music) consists merely of playing transcribed music in a central bureau and delivering it by telephone wires to subscribers who hear it through loud speakers. New York City at present is the sole U. S. spot to enjoy Muzak and ordinary citizens enjoyed it there long before tycoons, because...
...sufficiently to take the place of Carr's regular starting trio, which is good but never all-American. In the forward line, there is still a search for the winning combination. Latest reports seemed to be that Carr had it in the Dartmouth and Tufts games, but Princeton may mean another story...
...task of holding down a booth at the Automobile Show will be but a part of the work being undertaken during a field trip for students in the bureau, which began Sunday and will continue until Friday, November 5. By no means a joy ride, according to Maxwell Halsey, assistant director of the Bureau, the trip wil mean 13-hour-a-day work for the students. "When they come back it'll take 'em two or three days to recover!" predicted Mr. Halsey grimly...