Word: teamwork
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Entering the second period the under-dog, the Harvard outfit failed to resume its co-operative teamwork, every man playing his own game for the first few minutes. Toward the end of the period the Crimson men began to close up on the Engineers, the lead teetering from one side to the other. A last minute drive climaxed by clever handling of the ball by Garth clinched the game for M.I.T...
...Soviet Press this year to be performing prodigies, soon was raised by Bolshevik puffs to the status of a "Hero of Labor." Russians read that Stakhanov increased his output of coal five-fold by "Stakhanovism." What he did was 'to organize a gang of three miners with such teamwork that Stakhanov, the skilled pneumatic driller, was able to spend all his time drilling out coal, while the others did the propping and panting. By this means the three got out enough coal in a six-hour shift to raise their perman output about five-fold of what...
...Heavy Industry Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze made national heroes of one Comrade Stakhanov, 22, and five other young Donetz Basin coal miners. Accustomed to getting out five tons of coal in each six-hour shift with a Soviet automatic cutting machine, Stakhanov worked out with his proppers and loaders a teamwork system which increased production to 310 tons per six-hour shift...
With the difficult music both were perfectly at ease. The Mozart was graceful and fleet, though Yehudi's tone was sometimes sleazy. The Schumann was richly romantic, the Beethoven flawless in shading and design. The teamwork throughout was beyond approach. Applause was all that bewildered Hephzibah who went on & off stage clinging tightly to Yehudi's hand. He could not make her bow. But if Father and Mother Menuhin have their way Hephzibah will never require a platform manner. Though they have been besieged with offers from all over the U. S., last week's Manhattan appearance...
...Deal's teamwork certainly was not clicking. The team's captain could not afford to let the impression get abroad, least of all at a time when he was trying to get U. S. businessmen in the bleachers rooting for his side. Messrs. Ickes and Moffett were summoned to the White House and a three-way telephone connection was put through to Warm Springs. After a few minutes Messrs. Ickes and Moffett stomped out of the White House. Three-quarters of an hour later the President's second assistant secretary, Stephen T. Early, issued a statement signed...