Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what he wants when he is hungry and sleeps on the attic floor rolled up in a blanket. To counteract his habit of forgetting things his watch, his pocketbook, fountain pen, keys, etc. are attached to his clothes by an intricate system of safety pins and odd bits of string. He knows Goethe's Faust by heart, writes and speaks Latin fluently, discourses familiarly on the philosophy of Nietzsche, Spengler, hates beer...
...advantage of several weeks on the ice before the American teams can get started and comparisons that can be made through the B.U. games, which both played, seem to favor Harvard. The Tigers are using the same system of retaining standing combinations so that both wings on the first string have played together for two years while the second line is a promising group which functioned so smoothly on last year's Freshman outfit...
Callaway, Moseley and Duffey are now registered as the third line completing the Harvard offense. The new changes make the Crimson more formidable than it has been in several years because all three of the lines are of a calibre equal to an ordinary first string...
Three years ago Consolidated fell into the toils of the mightiest investment trust in the U. S., Floyd Bostwick Odium's Atlas Corp. Consolidated's corporate troubles had begun with a post-War expansion during which it acquired a string of lithograph companies and a $3,000,000 debt. Atlas Corp., through a subsidiary, acquired some five-year notes covering the fattest slice of this debt ($1,600,000), together with 40,000 shares of Consolidated stock. Into the maw of Atlas Corp. many companies go but few return. Consolidated was the exception. Smooth, hustling President Jacob...
...divers, Honry K. Fitts '36 and Bernard F. Merriam, II '36 just can't seem to make up their minds on the question of who is the better man. They have been alternating as the winner of meets and the first-string diver through their two years of competition. Fitis at present has the edge in points scored, but Morriam is confident that this is to be his year and hopes to taste the sweetness of revenge. All of which adds to the pleasure of Coach Ulen's life, for no coach could ask for better conditions than good-natured...