Word: stacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Previously stack-workers have been forced to leave their books and descend to the bathroom in the basement...
...forward wall the picture is more favorable for Emerson (Spike) Nelson, Yale's new line coach. It is enough to say that Captain Bill Stack, at center, looks to be as good as any pivot man in the Ivy League. Flanking him are a pair of Junior guards, Cape Burnam and Jim Dern, both of whom won their letters last year. This trio leaves little to be desired, and Bulldog enemies should find it difficult to avance far on this sector...
...named William Dubil lugged a bottom round of beef from his refrigerator, found that someone had stored it too near the freezing coils. It was granite-hard. Sure that the piece was spoiled, would blacken as it thawed, rueful Dubil put it on a slicing machine, turned out a stack of paper-thin slices. He put them in the display refrigerator just to see what would happen...
However radio broadcasting may stack up among the arts, it is no slouch as a business. Last week the Federal Communications Commission, after looking at the records of the 660 active U. S. commercial broadcasting stations and the three major networks which feed 350 of them, revealed how radio stood in 1938. Its plant value and investment totaled $1,068,339,901. Total revenues (time sales, talent placing, rental of network facilities, etc.) were $111,358,378. Broadcasting expenses (talent costs, advertising, promotion, administration, etc.) were $92,503,594. Net income from broadcasting in 1938: $18,854,784, 17% less...
...after Art Johns was driven off the mound back to his regular post at the keystone sack. "Snake" Keyes has been struggling with a rest batting slump which has found his average dipping down around 100 for the 11 contests he has played in. Heckel's fielding seems to stack up favorably with the "Snake's," and he should outhit him by quite a few percentiage points