Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notable was the fact that the National Hockey League has the same set-up this year as last: American Division teams in Detroit, New York, Chicago, Boston; International Division teams in Toronto, Montreal (two), New York...
...game last week, Bill Stewart's Blackhawks took a 3-to-0 licking from the revived New York Americans. On the same night the Detroit Red Wings, out to defend the Stanley Cup they have held for two years, played an inauspicious 2-to-2 tie with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Meanwhile, as the other teams in the circuit started their 48-game schedules, Howie Morenz Jr., 11, hung on his wall a hockey stick covered with autographs of his late father's friends, who had taken care of one of their...
...earlier work Morley Callaghan gave promise of being a sharply sensitive realist. Perhaps it is the haze of his native Toronto, perhaps it is only the gentling-down that many a prancing Pegasus goes through as it is broken to the book trade, but he seems now to be turning into a mystically misty romantic. Since undertones of the realistic approach remain, the result is, at times, confusing...
Being worth $700,000 and better known to the ends of the earth than any initialed railroad, broadcasting station or New Deal agency, the Dionne Quintuplets last week assumed Y-A-C-E-M as their code name. Psychology Professor William Emet Blatz of the University of Toronto tagged them thus, cryptically indicating that intellectually Yvonne is superior to all her sisters, Marie inferior, with Annette, Cecile and Emilie ranging between...
...Toronto meeting broke up with a free-for-all argument on the floor regarding the relative effects of heredity and training on children. One virtuoso of the science of child study argued that Marie was smaller and less smart than the others because the "bag of water" which, like a soft shell, encloses a fetus, broke before she was born...