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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lone Pirate | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...launched his own firm with eight employes. Now it has 150. On its shelves often sit as much as $25,000,000 in Government securities, and Christopher Devine's pockets are supposedly lined with several million dollars. Blue-eyed, quiet, he belies his repute as a plunger. His greatest coup was last June's buying of an entire $60,000,000 issue of Pennsylvania Tax Notes. His astute bid of $109,928,008 plus $500 was high by precisely one cent. Christopher Devine then unloaded the entire $60,000,000 in 45 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Devine Guidance | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...wings so far are Bill Watt of last year's Varsity football team, and Gerry Desmond from California. Both of these men held the same positions on the team last spring, but they are being pushed hard for their places by Art Oakes and "Five Yards" Mike Cohen, line-plunger extraordinary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruggers Near Top Practice Form for Contest With Cambridge University | 3/19/1938 | See Source »

...which shoots a disk on the end of a plunger at house flies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...backfield, the play of Craig, Schwenk, Wilson, and Long has featured in every game, Craig and Wilson sharing triple-threat honors equally. Schwenk has shown marked improvement as a line plunger, and Long is very dangerous on sweeps and passes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Reigns as Favorite Over Army Despite Injuries to Key Backfield Men | 11/6/1937 | See Source »

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