Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Lester Patrick did the same thing that Connie Mack has twice done in baseball: disbanded his great team to start building another from scratch. He had paved the way for doing so. Scouting -from the mill pond up-has long been the customary procedure in big-league hockey, but Lester Patrick four years ago brought an innovation to the sport when he started a training school for likely prospects. Because Eastern Canada has been so thoroughly scoured by scouts (75% of major-league players come from either Toronto or Ottawa), Manager Patrick opened his school in Winnipeg, where...
...send a child to college, and that 80% of U. S. families are in that category, he declared: "It is perfectly evident to me that at the college level and at the advanced professional school stage, all the institutions of the country have been fishing in one small pond...
...children she knew, skating on a pond near Bridgeport, broke through the ice and drowned. The tragedy made a doubly strong impression on Bessie Pastor because she did a lot of skating herself. Then & there she resolved that she would some day create a safe kind of synthetic ice-not artificially frozen water, but some other solid compound that would offer a skater a smooth gliding surface. It might have other advantages over natural ice, but in Bessie Pastor's mind its primary quality would be safety...
...President Conant declared "we have had fortunate experience" with the "sliding scale National Scholarship" plan at Harvard. "It is perfectly evident to me," he said, "that at the college level, and at the advanced professional school stage, all the institutions of the country have been fishing in one small pond. They have been concerned, by and large, with a competition for the most promising youths in the income tax paying group; and at least three-quarters, or more probably 90 per cent, of the youths of the country are not to be found within this class...
...graduates serving as experts for federal, state, or municipal government agencies comprise the largest group, Professor Pond reported. This work includes the planning of town, park, recreational, and highway areas. Forty- four men are in independent lines...