Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prophecy I (1920) was remembered by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Charles G. Ross: "The handwriting is there as plain as ever was mene mene tekel up-harsin. . . . The general service pension is coming. It's as certain as death and taxes...
Handsome, hulking Norman Ross was a great Olympic swimmer, a World War flier, later managed athletic tourists like Tilden, Nurmi, reported for the Chicago Journal. Now he is grey, 43, and made $25,000 last year as a Chicago radio character known to WMAQ's listeners as Uncle Normie. He has five programs on the air, the main one being an early-risers' hour for Chicago & North Western Railway. For this Uncle Normie has three alarm clocks, timed to go off one after another starting...
With six minutes to go the scoreboard read 31 to 25 for the Red and Blue, but in the next four minutes the Crimson put on a spurt, and with two minutes left Joe Romano sank a shot that tied the game at 35 all. At that point Ross Hahu, Sophomore forward, was given two free shots, and although he made only one, it was enough. No more Harvard shots came even close to the basket...
...Ross Rahn a Junior with 53 points to his credit and Tony Capute, another junior will team at forwards for the visitors, with Soleliae at the pivot post and Sid Levinson, a 62-point man, and Bill Hook both Sophomores at the guards...
...Rousmaniere trimmed Vorts 3 to 0, but Pettit and MacCracken of Princeton took the three and four matchs from Bill Wood and John Palfrey respectively in five game battles. Then, Don Marvin, John King, and Ross Lyell turned the tide for the Barnaby squad...