Word: pots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because they usually bring home more than their share of trophies, the Marines are called "pot-hunters." Accustomed to Central American rain and slime, they did not seem to mind the early bad weather, won more cups than any other unit. Equally acclimatized to tropic sun glare, they won the team match for the second consecutive year, for the eleventh time. The only branch that consistently gives the Marines a run for their money is the Infantry, which still holds the match record of 2,838 out of a possible 3,000, established...
Sporting Blood (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) has to do with a racehorse named Tommy Boy. Bred on a Kentucky farm, he is sold successively to a pot-bellied stable owner, a spendthrift with a petulant wife, a gambler who dopes him to win a race. When the gambler is murdered after a misunderstanding with his confreres, his mistress inherits the horse, winters him on the farm where he was bred, enters him in the Kentucky Derby. Gamblers try to fix this race also; but Tommy Boy's owner has a stable boy cut a notch in the reins so that...
...Hoover is offering to surrender $257,000,000 if France will surrender $97,000,000. Crudely stated, he is suggesting that every inhabitant of France put $2.36 into the pot while every inhabitant of the United States puts in only...
...chemistry and of biology, by providing clerical assistance in various departments and funds for publication by decreasing the teaching lead of members of the faculty who have shown a special gift of authorship by the increase in salaries, with the resulting decrease in worry and in the output of pot boilers, and in other ways it has so far as funds permit released the powers of its teaching force Surely Harvard has come a long was since the days when as noted by Henry James in his life of President Eliot, sophomore and junior compositions were corrected by Professor ( "Stubby...
...their plans could be resumed depended on how long Depression lasted. Whether it will last too long for Herbert Hoover's re-election remains to be seen. But last week it seemed to be lasting too long for Cleveland's Eaton. He resigned as chairman of Continental Shares, a pot which contained more than $150,000,000 worth of U. S. industry and which was the centre of his power...