Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter was a mistake, he was asked for one thing and he offered another. There is certainly material difference between support of the Tercentenary Fund and the prize scholarships, and an award which sends Harvard men to the birthplace of National Socialism under the wing of Hitler's piano player...
...unjust to link Mr. Bingham's proposal to eliminate the minor sports with the expense involved in an extra week of pre-season training. Unlike the practice at Princeton, a player's expenses are not paid from an A.A. fund but out of the individual's pocket. The additional incidental cost of the proposed extension, since the coaches are paid by the year, would not equal the charges for later medical care of injuries caused by poor physical conditioning...
...ever genuinely enjoyed being Vice President of the U. S. For 36 years his colleagues in House and Senate knew Kansas' Charles Curtis not only as a modest, hardworking, ultraconservative, non-speechmaking Republican wheelhorse, but as a friendly, back-slapping good fellow, a crack poker player and lover of horse races...
...Olympic Games (TIME, Nov. 4), felt justified in writing: ". . . Not the slightest evidence of religious, political or racial prejudice is outwardly visible here. Anti-Jewish signs have been removed from villages. The Stürmer, anti-Semitic newspaper, is being kept out of sight. A Jewish hockey player has even been drafted for the German team. In short, politics is being kept out of a sphere in which it has no place. . . . Only sports count and nobody thinks of anything else...
...enough spare stock to supply his son with a coat to match his trousers. Small Stark envied the boy who lived across the street, whose name was Walter Winchell, and who owned a Buster Brown suit of blue serge. When he grew up Dolly Stark became a professional baseball player. He gave it up in 1921, went to Dartmouth as basketball coach three years later, kept up his interest in baseball by umpiring summers. In 1927, he became a professional umpire in the Eastern League, succeeded well enough for the National League to send a scout to watch his work...