Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First there was the regular pigskin season. Then a few teams decided to stage intersectional clashes to prolong the season into December. Shortly some one had the idea of a championship encounter, the Rose Bowl. Soon a lot of other people wanted a lot of other Bowls, the Sugar, the Cotton, the Finger, the Orange, and Hawaii's Pineapple. It was surprising, as a matter of fact, that baseball was able to keep possession of the Grapefruit...
...these things came about; and last Monday was a big day in college football, as well as in top-notch high school circles. Yesterday, however, two victors in Rose Bowl play, Tennessee and Texas Christian, were asked to compete in another game for a "World's Fair" trophy and free rides on the Ferris Wheels...
Among many Frenchmen there rose a feeling that Premier Daladier, by a few strokes of the pen at Munich, had turned France into a second-rate power. Aping Mussolini in his gestures and copying triumphant Hitler's shouting complex, the once liberal Daladier at year's end was reduced to using parliamentary tricks to keep...
Bowl Games: Sugar (Mon. 2 p.m. NBC-Blue), Texas Christian v. Carnegie Tech at New Orleans; Orange (2:15 p.m. CBS), Tennessee v. Oklahoma at Miami; Rose (5 p.m. NBC-Red), Duke v. Southern California at Pasadena; also East v. West All Stars (4:45 p.m. MBS) from San Francisco...
...Weather Bureau assembled all available records covering a century or more, found that they showed a trend towards warmth. In Manhattan, white-thatched James Henry Kimball, famed weather adviser of transatlantic fliers, found that in his territory average annual temperatures rose 2.1° from 1831 to 1900, 1.4° more from 1900 to 1938. Meteorologists do not know whether the present warm trend is likely to last 20 years or 20,000 years...