Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual spring appearance of the common housefly seemed the right time for Professor Stanley Barron Freeborn of the University of California to report the color preferences of that ubiquitous pest. It appeared that fly paper should be bright orange, a shade all flies like best; that tablecloths should be pale green, the least liked color. Dr. Freeborn, specialist in sheep & poultry parasites, conducted his housefly balloting by exposing a big rectangular board divided into squares of different colors, counting the number of insects which alighted on each (without taking repeaters into account). The vote: orange, 10,572; primrose yellow...
...Montreal, the Montreal Maroons, famed as the best defensive team in the National Hockey League, last week skated out to play the third game of the final series for the Stanley Cup against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Overcautious because they had already lost the first two games, the Maple Leafs started slowly. The Maroons started fast, finished faster. When the game was over, they had the Stanley Cup and the world's championship...
Becoming Solicitor General put Stanley Reed in the first line of the New Deal's legal defense at a critical moment. The Solicitor General's job is to decide what cases should be appealed to the Supreme Court and to represent the Government in person before that august bench. Solicitor General J. Crawford Biggs re-signed last month after many New Dealers had decided that he was not making the best of the Administration's defense (TIME. March 25). Mr. Reed, taking office, understood well enough that he was expected to do better. But he was hardly...
...sports enthusiasts who appreciate the simplicity of the World Series, in which the two best baseball teams in the U. S. play each other, the complexities which determine possession of the Stanley Cup, emblematic of the world's championship at hockey, are entirely incomprehensible. In professional hockey, there is only one major league, divided for convenience & profit into two "groups" whose members play against each other regularly. Instead of awarding the Stanley Cup each season to the best team, officials of the National Hockey League hold not one but five series of post-season games, from which only...
...third period, made the winning goal in the overtime period that followed. When the uproar was all over, the Montreal Maroons, a clever, cautious team built around their crack defenseman, Lionel Conacher, had qualified to play the speedy, more experienced Toronto Maple Leafs for the Stanley...