Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stanley Cup's peculiarities are not limited to its appearance. It is awarded each year, not to the team which wins most games in the National Hockey League season, but to the one which, when the season is over, wins a tournament that excluded this year only the three feeblest teams in the league. One of the first teams eliminated in the tournament last fortnight were the New York Rangers who won the Stanley Cup last year. The Toronto Maple Leafs, by far the ablest team in the National League judged by their season's record, were...
...Conacher, most celebrated all-around athlete in Canada, made the first goal for Chicago near the end of the first period. Herb Lewis, captain and star left wing of Detroit's first forward line, tied the score in the third. In games in the final series for the Stanley Cup, no ties are allowed. Black Hawks and Red Wings, tied 1-1, had started a second 20-min. overtime period last week when Romnes, Chicago's center, stole the puck in front of the Detroit net. Said he, after the game: "I looked up to see Paul Thompson...
...Stanley Evans, Highland Park, Mich. Negro: the National A. A. U. heavyweight boxing championship; outpointing Irwin Striebel of St. Louis, who outweighed him by 30 lb.; in St. Louis...
This was no economist with a Message for the 2,000 packed listeners, but a scientist. More strange, he was there to talk on a subject in which nine-tenths of the audience had had no prior interest: "The Expanding Universe." But he was Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, M. A., D. Sc.. LL. D., F. R. S., Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge University, Director of Cambridge Observatory, metaphysician extraordinary of modern physics...
...photons. But there are two men who are at home on both the mathematical and experimental fronts and who, on the interpretative front, lift highly articulate voices to trace for interested laymen the whole reach of modern physics and to discuss its philosophical repercussions. They are Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and Sir James Hopwood Jeans...