Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another back hard to overlook is Tennessee's fast-stepping George Cafego. who has gone a long way toward making Coach Bob Neyland's Volunteers the No. 1 surprise of the year. Considered second-class by most pre-season prognosticators, Halfback Cafego & Co. ran up a string of eight victories in a row, made it nine last week against Kentucky (46-to-0), won the championship of the Southeastern Conference and wondered if they would get a bid to the Rose Bowl...
Beethoven: Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 74 (Budapest String Quartet; Victor: 8 sides). Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 127 (Busch Quartet; Victor: 10 sides), and Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132 (Busch Quartet; Victor: 11 sides). When gloomy Philosopher Oswald Spengler was casting about for the top artistic achievement of Western Civilization he included the string quartets (not the symphonies) of Beethoven. These three top achievements are given carefully tooled performances by two of the finest contemporary ensembles...
...adventurers got up into the crypt, but couldn't locate the bulb. After groping in the gloom frantically for the string, they got desperate. On top of this, each was heavily burdened with a tripod and a pair of binoculars...
...weeded them out until he had three complete teams, any one of which the late, great Knute Rockne, his teacher, might have been proud of. Victor over Kansas, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Carnegie Tech, Army, Navy and Minnesota on successive Saturdays, last week Notre Dame added Northwestern to its string-and incidentally exhibited a substitute quarterback named Willard Hofer who scored all nine points of its 9-to-7 victory...
...bath rubber. Bathhouse John saved his tips, opened an establishment of his own. managed to get a grip on the vote of the First Ward, never lost it. A master of personal publicity, he was equally famed for rhymed doggerel (which Chicago newshawks ghosted for him), bright waistcoats, a string of race horses which lost consistently...