Word: play
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Denney moved from newsboy to Penn State to Union Switch & Signal Co., through a multitude of railroad jobs to general manager of the Nickel Plate. Then Bernet took him to Erie, left him there as president when he went to head Chesapeake & Ohio. A family man, he used to play avidly with electric trains in his attic when his son was small. But he knows railroading like a book, is hep to what it needs today...
...horseshoe nail salesman), his pals in St. Joseph, Mich, called him "Punk." Now he is a fattish, fiftyish, rheumy-eyed, flashy-dressing showman. As a kid, he learned enough piano chords by ear to get some local esteem as a musician. Because he found he could play the piano standing on his head, he became Don Carney, the Trick Pianist of vaudeville. He got into radio 14 years ago. One day, on a half-hour's notice, he was assigned to do a children's program. Up at the microphone he just thought of mother, and from then...
...head coach classed Joe Gardella and Ernie Sargeant as outstanding, while Big Tom Healey was commenced for dependable play at tackle. Barring injuries or the unexpected, they'll stick in the Crimson first lineup...
Both coaches, Harlow and Mannie Mansfield, praised the play of Charlie Crooker's and Art Belliveau for Bates. The captain and center, Crooker was in every play, throwing back Harvard thrusts like a man with twice his 165 pounds...
Because of its importance in tremors arising from explosions, the new wave is expected to play a considerable part in proposed uses of the seismograph in army artillery observation, for the location of heavy enemy guns, and also for computation by a gun crew of their accuracy of fire. Both the discharge of a cannon and the explosion of a shell set up vibrations underground which can be traced by earthquake instruments...