Word: prowesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competitive work will be done by mail with other ROTC units in the East, and be necessarily open only to the ROTC members of the club, there are prospective matches with the Metropolitan Pistol League which will give others in the club a chance to show their prowess...
...tall, Schoolboy Rowe's achievement climaxed a season in which he had already distinguished himself by winning 16 consecutive games. At New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y., James Mutrie, one of the organizers of major-league baseball in New York, was so impressed by Rowe's size and prowess that he told reporters how he had come to nickname the New York team "Giants" in 1888: "All the players were tall that year. One day I looked out on the field and shouted: 'You're giants in size and you're giants in playing. Come on, you giants...
...Inspector Evans with lavish treats of Serbian beer. He made copy with such jokes as "Now there, keep away. I have a policeman stationed behind every tree. No photographs!" When the correspondents grew restless Major Humphrey Butler. Adjutant to Prince George, joined Inspector Evans in describing at length the prowess of His Royal Highness. "He can outwalk either of us," they said. "Once the Prince climbed to Prince Paul's hunting hut in an hour and 45 minutes. Even the native mountaineers consider it good going to make the hut in two hours and a quarter...
Cavalcade. In 1920 Samuel D. Riddle's Man o' War retired after winning 20 races in 21 starts. So great was the prowess of Man o' War that he remains today the outstanding U. S. racehorse with which all others must, sooner or later, be compared. In 1930 some thought that Gallant Fox might get into his class. In 1931 it was Twenty Grand that the dopesters were hopefully watching. But wise-acres long ago agreed that neither was the equal of the 17-year-old who last week was sunning himself on the Riddle farm near Lexington, Ky., while...
...workers in a plant where a majority voted for union representation. Sooner or later it was evident that Miss Perkins was going to sit down with the steelmasters of the U. S.-Grace of Bethlehem, Taylor of U. S. Steel, Weir of Weirton, Girdler of Republic-and try her prowess as a labor peacemaker. Although a secret ballot of U. S. Steel's employes last week showed, according to Iron Age, that 95% of the company's employes opposed a strike, the bloodiness of all past steel strikes made the threat of such a walk-out still...