Word: swede
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exercise without encouraging roughness or bad tem per. Main feature of its extraordinary growth has been the tendency of basket ball to grow more violent every year. The winter's noisiest basketball row broke last week. Undefeated in 20 games, New York University's team of one Swede, one Irishman and eight Jews lost to Georgetown, 36-10-34. Aftermath was a sizzling editorial in one of N. Y. U.'s four campus papers charging that the "health and safety of the players" was endangered by "Georgetown's insane . . . Jew-hating following," demanding that athletic relations...
Although Bob Waldinger will start at goal again, Ash Emerson will be ready for the first time this year, is slated to see action. Jim Roberts and Thorny Brown will start at defense, will change off with Art Duffey and Swede Claflin instead of Traff Hicks and Russ Allen...
...from the Jayvees of last year come Pete Perry, Charlie Bellows, Bill Quinby, Swede Claflin and Jim Kidder. The Varsity stronghold remains intact...
...trick which, in The Trial of Mary Dugan, made Producer Woods a tidy fortune in 1927-28. A crime has been committed before the audience arrives, is thereafter unraveled in a long-drawn courtroom scene. The crime which took place on the night of Jan. 16 concerns a fictional Swede named Bjorn Faulkner, who bears a close resemblance to a real Swede named Ivar Kreuger. Faulkner had built a financial empire largely through finagling on a grand scale. He and a secretary-mistress named Karen Andre (Doris Nolan) arrive in Manhattan where he sets her up in a penthouse. After...
...Patent Office refused an application for a stove patent because Emanuel Swedenborg had invented an identical stove 200 years before. The unlucky stove-inventor was one of a myriad of scientists & inventors anticipated by this versatile 18th Century Swede. When his 60-odd scientific books & pamphlets were finally collected and examined toward the end of the 19th Century it was discovered that Swedenborg had been ahead of his time in almost every field of science. He invented an ear-trumpet and mercury air pump, sketched a submarine, airplane, machine gun, fire extinguisher, steam engine. He propounded the nebular hypothesis before...