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Word: skips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over a hundred Yearlings respond each year to football coach Skip Stahley's "Come one, come all" invitation. After a few days of conditioning and drilling in fundamentals beneath the warm gun on Soldiers Field, the first squad is selected, the remainder being shunted into Clark Hodder's experienced bands. The first squad's schedule includes top-notch prep-school elevens and several college first-year teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Facilities Open to Freshman | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

Above the pool are located three basketball courts, which can be converted into indoor tennis courts. Skip Stahley will direct the '43 dribblers, and the odds are that he will held another fine team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Facilities Open to Freshman | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

With the exception of one appointment, the coaching staff will remain unchanged. Under Harlow on the Varsity will be Wes Fesler in charget of ends; Lyall Clark, line; and John Wood and Vernon Struck, backfield. Skip Stahley will continue with the Yardlings, and Henry Lamar remains with the Junior Varsity. Cliff Wilson has been named to assist Lamar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIGSKIN VETERANS SCARCE THIS YEAR | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

...came: A. F. of L. sent 30 experienced building trades organizers into Michigan to make a heavily financed assault on U. A. W. of C. I. O. They will work with A. F. of L.-convert Homer Martin, the youthful ex-preacher, who as National A. A. U. hop-skip-jump champion (in 1924 and 1925) was known as "The Leaping Parson from Leeds" (Kansas). This explained to observers Mr. Martin's nonchalance of the week before, when his wealthiest, strongest U. A. W.A. F. of L. local (Packard) moved 10,000 members and its treasury over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dress Rehearsal | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Frequency modulation can be described as changing the length of the radio wave. Amplitude modulation changes the wave's strength. Interference noises can simulate amplitude modulation and therefore disturb signals broadcast by this system, but they do not simulate frequency modulation. Thus frequency-modulated signals skip neatly past the interference, whether lightning bolt or icebox motor. One catch is that ultrashort wave length of limited range must be used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: No Interference | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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