Word: turning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wrestling milk-cans on cold Minnesota mornings while his college classmates slept snugly, "Fierce" Butler thrust his way painfully on & up, became by the century's turn a crack railroad lawyer in the days when railroads were among the biggest U. S. corporations. To Wall Street, to conservatives, to Catholics he was a big name in 1922, when President Harding appointed him to the highest Court...
...Weckler stalled for time. Next day he said O. K. on arbitration, if the union would accept in toto the 1933 company-union plan. Now it was Mr. Frankensteen's turn to take time...
...number of years of war, it has been demonstrated that a state of armed warfare is a normal state of the people, at least of those living on the European Continent, because even in years of so-called peace other types of war are waged, which in their turn prepare our armed warfare...
When it was Yale's turn to fumble and Dick Paster fell on Burr's dropped ball on the 37, Whiteman's interception stopped short Crimson joy two plays later...
There's nothing so hot about these guys. They're a dime a dozen on every Harvard squad in every sport, and they don't get either headline or athletic scholarships. They may be suckers, but they're in a swell sport to do one badly needed good turn. They can give a loud and lusty bird to John Tunis. Larry Kelly, and their fellow hatchet men of the "College athletics stink" tribe...