Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bookmakers in Manhattan reported that $100,000 had been wagered on Fordham v. St. Mary's. Beaten by Nevada in last fortnight's most surprising upset, St. Mary's started off badly when Fordham's Maniaci intercepted a pass, made a mad 80-yd. dash for a touchdown in the first quarter. Harry ("The Horse'') Mattos tied the score with a touchdown in the next quarter, threw a pass to Erdelatz for another in the last. St. Mary's 14, Fordham...
They are known to be extremely devoted. In Hollywood Turner flew a plane of his own in Hell's Angels, became an aviation technical adviser for the cinema. In 1929 he organized Nevada Airlines, operated it successfully for eight months. But the obscurities of ordinary business held no attachment for Turner. While working for Gilmore Oil Co. as an aerial advertiser, he acquired a 450-lb. lion cub which flew everywhere with him and helped to get his picture in the papers. Better known than this pet is the Turner uniform-robin's-egg-blue tunic, faun-colored...
...leave this House forever" if debate were limited. Seattle's Rt. Rev. Simeon Arthur Huston* cried: "We have had a lot of pious twaddle from celibate clergymen who are about as far from knowledge of the realities of life as the man in the moon." Up spoke Nevada's Rt. Rev. Thomas Jenkins: "Vote no! I am not a celibate clergyman. I have raised seven children and sent four to college and I am out of debt." But the House of Bishops passed the resolution...
...Francisco, Coach Slip Madigan, whose efforts have built "little" St. Mary's into one of the most formidable football teams on the West Coast, coolly started his second string against Nevada. Nevada made a touchdown. Sent in to save the game, St. Mary's first string made the score 7-to-6 at halftime. In the last few minutes of play, Nevada's centre Tom Cashill won the game with a drop-kicked field goal...
...Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin...