Word: restfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gridiron forces will have a day of rest today, while two scrimmages are on the program for next week in preparation for the Springfield game next Saturday...
Light work to break a week of almost steady scrimmaging was the program of yesterday's football practice on Soldiers Field. The first eleven and the scrubs will clash again today in the last practice session of the week. Coach Horween having prescribed rest for his forces on Saturday...
...rest of the backfield squad is made up of F. S. Grant Jr. '29, G. L. Graves '31, A. W. Huguley '31, G. C. Holbrook '30, and T. G. Moore '29, all capable and mostly experienced material Graves has been doing particularly well so far this fall. He is a short stocky back with plenty of speed and fight, the type that makes a yard or so after he has been hit from all sides. He needs experience but otherwise should make trouble for opposing linemen this fall. Holbrook was among the most promising of last year's new material...
...business as a Michigan corporation. It prospered collaterally with the motor industry. Two years ago Fisher Body's net tangible assets were practically $90,000,000. General Motors, their chief customer, had by that time acquired three-fifths of their stock; the Fisher brothers owned most of the rest. Finally they traded all their holdings to General Motors for General Motors stock...
...general public Scotland Yard stands for all that is masterly in criminal detection. So much so, in fact, that the best-selling detective stories involve Scotland Yard; the second best contain the word murder in the title; and the rest trail far behind. Such are the findings of the American "Crime Club,"* a smart bookselling racket conceived by Nelson Doubleday, smart son of a smart father. As an advertisement, he mails to club members or prospective members a pink sheet of mystery-story news luridly modeled after the gumchewer dailies. But it is mailed to no gumchewers; rather to portly...