Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston's Red Sox Mack Said, "Boston has a good team and it is getting better all the time. Lefty Grove looks better than at any time since he left the Athletics. I expect the Red Sox to show a very strong drive for the pennant...
Although setting out a much higher stroke the Yardlings lost the start to the light duralumin Tech shell. Not until the three-quarters did Captain Sherm Gray's cocky eight forge ahead, rowing two points higher than the Engineers. It took the final sprint to the finish to show up the hidden power of the Crimson. Gaining four feet at each stroke the Freshman managed to jump ahead with a deck-length of open water...
Annual convention of the D. A. R.-which is not called a convention but a "Continental Congress"-occurred in Constitution Hall. To join the D. A. R., which currently has 2,503 chapters, 143,000 members, requires no more than an ability to show that one or more ancestors bore arms against George III. Belonging to the organization is a matter of considerably more moment. In addition to its routine political activities of viewing with alarm, the D. A. R. runs innumerable pilgrimages, student loan plans, charities, better citizenship contests, scholarships, historical shrines and exhibits...
...Evans is the blunt headmaster of the Betteshanger School in Dover, England. Headmaster Evans believes in good bodies, declares that a man who develops a "monstrous girth" commits a social crime. Three weeks ago he debarked nine of his cheek-blown, beef-eating Betteshanger boys in Manhattan, had them show U. S. citizens proper methods of breathing and exercise. Last week, having seen as well as shown, Headmaster Evans prepared to ship his brood back to England, paused to observe that the average U. S. boy was superior in physique to the English boy. But he added a warning...
...pamphleteer Charles J. Moos '38 and a colleague who preferred to remain anonymous created quite a show at the Sanders meeting yesterday when they appeared with Congressman Bernard to advertise a "second Boston Tea-Party." Dressed in Indian clothes they led a nondescript element of peace strikers and Radcliffites into Congress Street in Boston...