Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wells urges his favorite project of a new World Encyclopaedia or "World Brain," but his sense of humor bitterly tells him that even if endowed it might fall into the hands of Nicholas Murray Butler. "I am impatient and at the same time I do not know how to accelerate matters," says H. G. Wells. "I do not think this is simply a case of the distress of an old man in a hurry...
...United States Senate, as printed day by day in the Congressional Record, we should have to say that it would be such an answer as the super-verbose and dimly lighted might be expected to give. Is it possible that we Americans cannot do better than that? Nicholas Murray Butler in the Columbia Spectator...
...Coaches mean over 7-6 defeats, yet Mills' training enabled me to kick twenty-two out of twenty-five points after touchdown in 1936" Murray says. "Last fall ninety-eight games were lost by this one-point margin, and countless others were decided on faulty punting. Unless coaches wake up, 1939 will be no different...
...Murray developed "sly own subpar average of thirty-two yards to fifty-six yards for Pennsylvania's traditional closing game with Cornell in 1935" and adds that this phenomenal 75 per cent increase "stemmed from one three-hour emergency session...
...what most of them lack--real enthusiasm for punting. Of course control has always been sought. Stagg, Yost, Percy Haughton of Harvard, all were aware of the importance of kicking. Mills' contribution was scientific. What he was after and what he perfected was the return-proof kick," Murray claims...