Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second period was not so hot, to put it mildly. The Harlowmen gained only 36 yards from scrimmage, four passes failed, a quick kick was nothing extra, and Princeton scored after a Foley fumble on the Harvard 31-yard line...
Little Richard Kleberg was brought to King Ranch at a tender age and grew up there, rough-riding over its vastnesses, clanking his spurs through the palatial ranch house, "Santa Gertrudis," which would put most Newport mansions to shame. His father sent him to law school at the University of Texas, after which he took up his duties as a King-Kleberg, helped manage the ranch from 1911 to 1924. Since then he has been the Kleberg front man. His younger brother Robert Justus Jr. sees to the King's 125,000 head of livestock, including the Klebergs...
...Miss. In low-wage Puerto Rico, employers planned to lay off 120,000 of the island's 420,000 workers, hiking the numbers of unemployed to 350,000. Thus did the nether ends of industry fit themselves last week to the second attempt of the New Deal to put "a floor for wages, a ceiling for hours." Into effect at 12:01 a.m., October 24, went the Federal Fair Labor Standards...
Although the Deacons won the shot put with a team total of 122 feet 9 1/2 inches, Bellboys Dick Dyer and Bill Cushwa took individual honors with heaves of 43 feet 1/2 inches and 42 feet 4 inches respectively...
...ever saw on a football field concerns a man you know. It was in 1910, and Penn State beat Pittsburgh 3-0. State had a tackle, one of the best there ever was, and he had water on the knee, had to be carried to the field. They put ice and stuff on his knee. The other team were confident that he couldn't play more than a few minutes. Well, he played an all-American game for 60 minutes. Name was Dick Harlow...