Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooner had Red Lowman sunk a foul shot for Harvard at the opening of the second half than Dartmouth began a scoring streak that placed them ahead 36-21 in ten minutes of play...
...population enables it to be called, is about three miles distant from Boston, with which it communicates by horse cars. It presents a village-like appearance, as most of its houses are on circled by large gardens. Harvard College stands in its midst a cluster of very hideous rectangular red brick buildings, with two or three others, less unsightly, of grey stone. Its library is rich in old historical works relating to America, but scarcely any manuscripts' in fact manuscripts are scarcely to be found in any public collections in the United States. The library is suffering from lack...
Horses ran away. The King was crowded out of the parade. Red flares, torches, giant sparklers in the hands of hilarious, milling, cheering celebrants ushered in an eight-day revival of St. Paul's historic wintersports carnival, last Saturday night. Not since most of them were youngsters, 20 years ago, had the members of South St. Paul's* old "Hook 'Em Cow Club" had such a night to sing their song. Not since the national American Legion convention of 1924 had downtown St. Paul swarmed with such noisy, enthusiastic thousands...
...Paul's businessmen had done themselves proud. Lacking the $100,000 munificence of red-whiskered Louis W. Hill,† who endowed the second and third St. Paul winter carnivals in 1916 and 1917, they had raised the expenses of this year's show by contributions and public sale of $1 carnival buttons. Citizens had saved their Christmas trees, donated them for street decorations. The WPA had furnished men to build a five-story ice palace, 191 ft. long, 70 ft. wide, 60 ft. high. Business and civic groups selected beauteous stenographers, secretaries, sales girls as their "queens...
...showed that, whereas in 1932-34 the roads as a whole failed to earn fixed charges and in 1935 only broke even, in 1936 they showed a profit of $155,000,000. Not all lines shared this good fortune. Missouri Pacific will probably be $8,000,000 in the red; Rock Island was $13,000,000. But Norfolk & Western made $33,000,000 in 1936 as against $25,000,000 year before, Chesapeake & Ohio $43.000,000 as against $31,000,000, Pennsylvania $38,000,000 as against $23,000,000, Nickel Plate $7,000.000 as against...