Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...playing lived up to the standard of Harvard-Yale competition, being fast and hard fought as the two 10-goal rated fours chopped up the field, heavy with recent rains...
...advance of the indoor. While it is perfectly true to say the game is not so scientifically accurate outdoors as indoors nevertheless a great deal of fun and enjoyment is to be had by young and old from the outdoor game. In fact, many of the winners of the recent National Tournament owe their start in the game to the outdoor courts. So long live badminton-both indoor and outdoor...
Meantime, in two instances where President Roosevelt would have been glad to see economies effected, the real obstacles to Economy were glaringly highlighted. Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, a recent convert to Economy, managed to persuade the Senate, which was supposed to be paring down the $83,000,000 Second Deficiency Bill, to authorize and make the initial appropriation for a new $112,000,000 TVA dam near Gilbertsville, Ky. -just across the line from Tennessee. Chairman Robert L. ("Muley"; Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee, who because a new tax bill would bear his name has been...
...treaty with Great Britain, a maneuver which would drive a disrupting wedge into Ottawa's "Buy Empire" philosophy. Also on Secretary Hull's list are Australia, whose unfavorable trade balance with the U. S. has lately been relieved by increased sales of wool, and South Africa, whose recent boom was largely financed by the U. S. Treasury's gold-buying policy. These, however, were matters for private rather than public haggling...
...Wagner, is still active with a children's music hour on the radio. Arthur Guiterman, whose verses in oldtime Life and elsewhere were for a generation as much of a U. S. landmark as the drawings of Charles Dana Gibson, still publishes skittish poems, but has in recent years tried more serious verse. Death and General Putnam-and 101 Other Poems (1935), his literary high, was boosted by many readers for a Pulitzer Prize. He is an expert on New York history, rich enough to winter in Florida, summer in Vermont...