Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...government was confined to the boundaries of new Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa. Daily trains to Egypt operated only thrice weekly, and then under armed guard. Arson, murder, wanton destruction made the Holy Land a land of terror, reducing Britain's prestige in the Near East to its lowest point in history...
...Franklin Field, before 60,000 spectators, young George Munger's young Penn team, fighting desperately to regain the prestige it lost when Princeton smudged its clean slate fortnight ago, staged a thrilling one-point victory over Columbia, 14-10-13. Halfback Sid Luckman, who gained 177 yards for Columbia with his forward passes, lost the game when one of his kicks for extra point went wide...
...Dobie's Boston College boys. Trailing 19-to-26 with less than three minutes to play, Temple zoomed from one end zone to the other in just three plays (a 50-yard runback of a kickoff, an incompleted pass, and then a completed pass), booted the extra point, tied unbeaten Boston College 26-10-26. Each team scored four touchdowns, succeeded in two of its tries for the extra point, kicked wide once, and had one try blocked...
...companies is to show customers or the public through their factories. Last May Western Electric Co. held open house in its Hawthorne Works at Chicago primarily for employes and their friends. The employes liked it so much that last week Western Electric held open house in its big Point Breeze plant near Baltimore. During the week 25,000 people, many of them employes seeing other jobs than their own for the first time, many of them local bigwigs, herded through a mile and a half of roped runways, saw spools do a Maypole dance as they braided a dun cotton...
...laughing waters called Minnehaha, in Minnesota were merrily roaring last week, the windup of Minnesota's gubernatorial campaign was sufficient reason. That spectacle had reached a point where Farmer-Labor Governor Elmer A. Benson, stung by his Republican opponent's charges that the Farmer-Labor administration was a corrupt city slicker machine, hurled back the worst epithet he could think of, called burly young Republican Harold E. Stassen a "drugstore cowboy." As fantastic were Republican Stassen's chief campaign planks against the most successful Farmer-Labor party in the U. S. : he promised: 1) a State Labor...