Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four times U. S. champion, trying to establish a new record with five championships in a row, Helen Jacobs won the first set on steady, well-placed chop strokes. In the second, she got a lead of 2-0, needed only four more games to add the U. S. title to the English one she won at Wimbledon this year. She could not get them. Flicking speedy forehand drives into the corners of the Jacobs court, pounding her American twist serve to force defensive returns, dropping soft shots just over the net when her opponent tried to play deep, Alice...
...lefthander currently functioning, often rated the best in baseball history, Hubbell, a long, drawling Oklahoman, has been as valuable to the Giants this year as famed Christy Mathewson was to Giant teams before the War. Last week he won his 23rd victory of the season, his 13th in a row...
...Conant had to argue her way into the Reception for delegates yesterday afternoon. Arriving with a party, she was stopped at the gate momentarily until she declared, "I'm Mrs. Conant." The usher decided that she could get in. She sat in the front row of the gallery with her two sons...
...Harvard has been spectacular but not all-important. The undergraduate body has swelled from a few hundred to many thousands; rich friends have coaxed the endowment well over the hundred-million-dollar mark; Mrs. Widener and Mr. Harkness have raised up pillars in the Yard and flung a row of palaces along the Charles. But all these are simply tools for more important tasks. Other universities have surpassed Harvard in size and approached her in endowment, but real progress has been in a different direction. The history of Harvard's last century lies in George Herbert Palmer's translation...
There was no scientific measurement at last week's demonstration. Estimates of how much of the cotton the machine picked the first time over a row varied from 50% to 75%, the second time 80% to 95%. Estimates of how much the reduction in grade, caused by trash, leaves and possible stain, would lop off the grower's return ranged from $3 to $7 per bale. Frequently heard was the opinion that, even if the machine were practical on huge, flat, high-yield tracts, it would do poorly on small plots, on hilly ground, on low-yield acreage...