Word: tars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indianapolis Speedway was built of a dirt, sand and tar mixture in 1909, rebuilt of brick in 1910 by Carl Fisher, later famed for his promotions at Miami and Montauk Point, and the late James Allison of Allison Engineering Co., to accommodate a top speed of 80 m.p.h. Automobile speeds have so increased that no car may now race at the Speedway unless it can go 100 m.p.h. The track is graded at 45° on the turns, 20° on the short straightaways, flat on the stretches. The only attempt to improve it since it was built was just...
...Exeter, that it had tried to help a much beloved ex-President of the United States to make a little money for his old age and that any corrupt political 'hookup' or intent could not be shown as to its 'preferred customers list.' No tar could be spattered upon the name of Morgan yesterday. So the committee adjourned early. It was, as we say, a dull...
...having on its faculty George Bernard Shaw's biographer Archibald Henderson, for the leisurely atmosphere of its green old campus at Chapel Hill. Athletically it is notable because the members of its teams, instead of naming themselves after wild animals, are quite content to be called "tar heels'"; and because its tennis team in the last four years has won 62 consecutive matches. When North Carolina's tennists last week completed their fifth tour of Northern colleges they had beaten Navy, Maryland, N. Y. U., Army, Yale, Harvard, Brown. The score of the Army match...
...competition with Duke is unique. There are 200 players on a side. Another reason is North Carolina's tennis coach, brown little John Kenfield who has been going down to Chapel Hill between seasons at the Lake Shore Country Club at Glencoe, Ill. since 1928. That spring the Tar Heels lost two matches. The next year they lost to Princeton. Since then they have lost to no one. Mild and affable in demeanor, North Carolina's Coach Kenfield is a strict disciplinarian. In 1930 he benched his No. i player for breaking training. Before he turned professional...
According to the Daily Tar Heel, undergraduate newspaper of the University of North Carolina, The Columbia Spectator is the best college newspaper in this country and Canada. Among other tidbits in his article, the Tar Heel's editorial chairman declares that "the current depression has exercised little effect on the tone and quality of collegiate journalism...