Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carrying off the individual crown at the Easterns, Junior Bob Graves received a just reward for three seasons of the most consistent play ever known to Harvard golf. As captain of his Freshman team, he went through the year undefeated. Last year he graduated to the No. 6 spot on the varsity and had another unblemished record. This season he started at No. 4, but was soon moved up to No. 2, where the efforts of all of his opponents produced only one halved match. Graves took all the others, but he had to work for some of them. Graves...
...straight and accurate news broadcasts nevertheless are not music to Gestapo ears. Germans caught listening to them in groups of three or more, for example, may find themselves in concentration camps. The B. B. C. broadcasts should have been hard for Gestapo snoopers to spot, because they are usually spoken in flawless German, but the Bow Bell chimes proved a dead giveaway. Last fortnight B. B. C. decided to keep the Bow Bells at home for the Cockneys, substituted for German ears a softly ticking metronome instead...
Nevertheless, the price of spot cotton last week was up to 9½?, highest level in nearly two years, and 1½? above the price of cotton for delivery after the new crop starts to move in August. The shortage has become so serious that the British spinners in Lancashire protested bitterly last March and the New York Cotton Exchange last week formally recognized the squeeze...
...mile relay Harvard was doomed by Lightbody's tiring 880. Running in the number three spot, he handed the baton and a one-yard lead to Anchorman Torby Macdonald, who was unable to withstand the speed of Cornell's Johnny Nevius and took second...
Bill Parsons is the regular backstop and another main cog in the Samborski nine. One of the two setbacks the Yardlings received came with Parsons and Ed Buckley absent from the lineup for a spring football game. Buckley holds down first base and bats in the cleanup spot. Soft-spoken Gil Whittemore is a dependable hot-corner custodian and little Jim Lynch from Bolmont High is on second. Bud Finegan is the regular shortstop...