Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This Army of ours . . . still has the amateur spirit, which is deep in our character as a nation, or perhaps is a pose belonging to a tradition that we are loath to abandon. I cannot imagine the German Army behaving in the same informal, humorous...
...factors make today's B. E. F. even more informal than the one Sir Philip knew before. Though the caste system still remains between officers & men, it has been broken down somewhat by: 1) removing the ban on officers' hobnobbing with enlisted men off duty; 2) ruling that officers may be chosen from the ranks...
...months ago a ham show opened in Chicago. Last week it was still running there. It had become a civic institution. It had played to 150,000 people and grossed over $250,000. The theatre was sold out three weeks in advance, and it was a good bet that, before it was through, the show would break all records for Chicago business...
...famed point-a-minute football teams-the early-century Wolverines who during five years (1901-05) lost one game out of 57 and rolled up 2,821 points to their opponents' 42-were invited to Ann Arbor for a Grand Homecoming with grizzled 68-year-old Fielding Yost, still the grand mogul of Michigan football (although he stopped coaching twelve years ago to devote all his time to directing athletics...
...Horace Mann High, he twice was named All-State quarterback, was the country's leading interscholastic football scorer (150 points) in 1936, was captain of the basketball team, pitched three no-hit, no-run games one spring, was State champion at the 100-yd. dash (9.9 sec.) and still holds the Indiana record (22.6 sec.) for the 200-yd. low hurdles...