Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There can't be much in this band-baton-over-the-goal-post business. The Harvard baton wiedler missed twice before the game, making it only on the third try, and the team did all right. But maybe it was meant to symbolize Harlow's two unsuccessful and third triumphant crack at the Tigers
Early in the third period Bill sheehan on a single reverse drove over his own left tackle and into the open, speeding 55 yards unimpeded for a touchdown...
Among the many things President Roosevelt did last week to indicate his honorable intentions toward a balanced budget (see p. 17), was to cast up an estimate of where he stood today. It was the President's third formal statement on the current budget, and the second revision since last January when he spoke hopefully of a "layman's balance" for fiscal 1938. By April that hope had faded to an estimated net deficit of $418,000,000, largely because of disappointing tax receipts. Last week the President had to hike his net deficit estimate once more...
...tough, skillful, highly-paid young men, the city of Boston has never been persuaded to take professional football very seriously. Last year in Detroit, where some 20,000 people were willing to pay up to $3.30 every week out of sheer delight in professional football, the Detroit Lions finished third among the four teams in the National League's Western Division. Meanwhile, in Boston, even when George Preston Marshall's Redskins dramatically won the championship of the Eastern Division, Bostonians remained apathetic. This year disgusted Mr. Marshall pulled his football team up from Boston by the roots, transplanted...
Last week in a characteristic anticlimax Larry Kelley had the grippe. The 7,500 hero worshippers who went to Boston's Fenway Park to see him-only a third that many people ordinarily go to see the Shamrocks-were disappointed. Larry Kelley was present, but sitting in a box with a muffler round his neck...