Word: season
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pencil on his bare toes. But in Jack's next match, he faced no eccentric pushover. He ran up against a 19-year-old, six-foot-one Golden Boy from California, unseeded and unsung, but the nearest thing to full Titan stature U. S. tennis has seen this season. Sidney Welby Van Horn, who prefers Welby because he thinks Sidney sounds like Percy, showed an overhead game like Budge's, a forehand like Vines's, a backhand like nobody's and a service like sixty to nudge the tired veteran Bromwich (a year his senior...
Manhattan's art season is to U. S. art what the Broadway season is to the U. S. theatre. It started off with a mild pop last week when the renovated Whitney Museum, after a four-month delay, threw open its doors at last, revealing a fountain filled with goldfish in the lobby, four new galleries filled mostly with familiar U. S. moderns from the Museum's permanent collection...
Sometimes the seasons move swiftly. Sometimes there comes an hour when men say "Yesterday it was winter. Today it is spring." Very like that was the change which came over U. S. business fortnight ago when war broke out: whole industries burst into flower, steel, machine tools (see p. 59), aircraft (see p. 63), etc. Many a smaller business feels the push of the season in the same way. Typical of many such were the new conditions last week faced by Marion Steam Shovel Co., No. 2 U. S. maker of shovels (No. 1: Bucyrus-Erie), 1938 net sales...
Appointed last May to be the successor of Archibald MacLeish an Curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism, Louis M. Lyons, Nieman Fellow from the Boston Globe last year, launched the 1939-40 season of the Fellowships during the past weekend with a series of dinner meetings and personal conferences with the 12 newspapermen chosen by the University to be Nieman Follows for the coming year...
Triple threat Torbie Macdonald was almost the whole show Saturday morning as he led the Varsity A team to a five touchdown romp over the B team in the season's first game scrimmage at Soldiers Field...