Word: starters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brookings had the edge until his injury, but while he has been on the bench Lane has been coming up fast and is now at least his equal as far as being a possible starter is concerned. In fact it rather looks as if Lane will have the call when the whistle blows three days hence...
Left guard and left half back remain the most doubtful positions, though it begins to look almost certain that Bill Lane, not Bob Brookings, will be the starter in the line job. Whether Freddy Moseley or Chet Litman will have the running back assignment is in the lap of the gods and Eddie Casey...
...fact, the only thing wrong with the track meet just at present is a little matter of languages. Yesterday afternoon, the ex-football star, Carl Pescosolido, better known as Pesky, was serving as starter for the Mussolini-men in the good old Italian style. The sprinters would crouch down on the starting line. "Aposto!" quoth Pesky. The runners wiggle slightly. "Pronto!" he saith. They tense into position. Bang! (International language, you know.) They...
Last year, in the New York World-Telegram Hole-in-One tournament, the first starter was 54-year-old Jack Hagen, professional at the Salisbury Country Club course at Westbury. L. I. where the tournament was held. He holed out a shot on the fly (TIME...
...been removed. No longer is a banker both a broker and dealer by definition. No longer is a bank forbidden to loan on sound but unlisted local securities. The odd-lot business and arbitrage are not annihilated by loose language. Even the much disputed margin requirements (45% for a starter) may be altered by the Federal Reserve Board. Most important of all the new Federal Securities & Exchange Commission, established to administer both the Exchange Act and the Securities Act, is given broad discretionary powers to modify and exempt...