Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professional football season reached its halfway mark last week, Laundryman George Preston Marshall's Washington Redskins, defending champions of the National Football League, were out in front in the 1938 race-as expected. Major disappointment of the season was Plunger Art Rooney's Pittsburgh Pirates, who had won only two games, lost five...
...know," Thorp said, "that the greatest exhibition of grit I ever saw on a football field concerns a man you know. It was in 1910, and Penn State beat Pittsburgh 3-0. State had a tackle, one of the best there ever was, and he had water on the knee, had to be carried to the field. They put ice and stuff on his knee. The other team were confident that he couldn't play more than a few minutes. Well, he played an all-American game for 60 minutes. Name was Dick Harlow...
...months every year the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, at other times a statue-stuffed monument to the late steel-master, becomes the world's most comprehensive salon of oil painting. The Carnegie International Exhibition, assembled with shrewd relish by the Institute's Director of Fine Arts Homer Saint-Gaudens, costs the estate of Andrew Carnegie about $40,000 a year, enlists the services of scouts in no less than ten European countries. Last month an international jury† spent two days picking eight prizewinners out of 365 paintings by U.S. and European artists; last fortnight all the paintings...
...stations owned by Publisher Hearst, within the last six months KEHE (Los Angeles), KTSA (San Antonio), WACO (Waco), KNOW (Austin), WINS (Manhattan) have been sold, subject to FCC approval. KYA (San Francisco), KOMA (Oklahoma City), WISN (Milwaukee) are reported for sale. Remaining Hearst stations are WCAE (Pittsburgh), WBAL (Baltimore...
...Madison, an undefeated Wisconsin team that had trounced Marquette and Iowa, put up a brave front against Pittsburgh but could not muster enough strength even to dent the No. 1 team of the East until the last ten seconds of play when Pitt, in front 26-to-0, put its third-string men on the field. Final score: Pitt 26, Wisconsin...