Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quintet went down to defeat at the hands of a powerful Columbia five on Monday, December 21, by a score of 31 to 22, Columbia, intercollegiate champions last year and previously unbeaten this season, met much stiffer opposition than it has expected in the Crimson aggregation, and had to muster up all its strength to come out on the long end of the score...
Believing that the Holy Cross game next Saturday will be one of the toughest battles of the year, Coach Casey is pointing towards it with all the power he can muster. "We will start the best team Harvard can put on the field Saturday," was the statement he made yesterday when asked if he would start the Seconds against Holy Cross. The Harvard Coach intimated further that the Crusaders clean hard type of football with its bruising interference will take even more out of Harvard than did the rugged Dartmouth style of play...
...barricades and plow up all approaches to the toll bridge. Incensed, Governor Sterling dispatched his Rangers to the Texas bridge head, curtly informed Governor Murray: "You have exceeded your jurisdiction beyond all reason." Replied Governor Murray: "I bow to your authority over the State of Texas. You could probably muster more manpower than I could in case...
...great nautical pother has been stirred in the Press because Old Ironsides was not sailed. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke made trouble for himself by publicly doubting whether the present-day Navy could muster a crew capable of handling a square-rigger. Old sailors' homes fairly thundered with indignant denials. Mr. Jahncke later explained that the Constitution had an exhibition schedule to keep, could not risk delays under canvas. He proposed that she be turned over later to Annapolis midship men for training purposes...
...sound off for the Republican nomination against President Hoover. Recalled was their long personal antagonism which culminated fortnight ago when President Hoover spoke alone at Valley Forge while Governor Pinchot was memorializing his old idol Theodore Roosevelt at his Oyster Bay tomb. While nobody seriously expected Mr. Pinchot to muster 10% of the delegates to the national convention, he became an anti-Hoover symbol around whom disgruntled Republicans could rally. Last week Nebraska's glum old Senator Norris remarked : "Pinchot would make an excellent man and I'm for him 500 times more than I am for President...