Word: turning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fundamental in the Harvard system of education is a well balanced program of physical training, well geared to correct the student's athletic deficiencies and designed to turn him out a more co-ordinated muscular machine than he was before. For over a period of 20 years exhaustive work in this direction has been supervised by Assistant Director Norman W. Fradd whose announcement yesterday pointed to the unprecedented success of his study and emphasized the importance of his contribution to the development of "normal young...
Frank Harnden broke through a strong Tech defense to break a 3 to 3 tie and turn the tide ten seconds before the end of the last extra period in the Crimson booters' match with M. I. T. yesterday afternoon which put the Crimson soccer team at the top of the New England League, in a 4-3 victory...
...hesitated on his third stride toward the jump. She worked out a group of signals: "come on," "ready," "gather for the jump," "hup" for the actual leap itself. Then she taught him to walk up and touch the jump with his breast to judge its height, canter down and turn, settle into his old, familiar stride again. Soon she had him doing high hurdles...
...been administering WPA in New Jersey and who, though a Hague protege, has promised to be a 100% New Dealer. Secretary Woodring's business with Boss Hague was to find out whether, in return for continued control over WPA and generous Federal patronage, Boss Hague would really turn out his Hudson County vote for Mr. Ely. Boss Hague's answer was to show Secretary Woodring a mammoth, slam-bang political jamboree for Candidate Ely in the Jersey City armory, complete with red-fire, bands, entertainers and an overflow crowd that brought the cheering total to at least...
...mayor's 16-year-old son is having an affair with the wife of the tax collector, as is the local doctor; the dealer in funeral wreaths is embracing his wife's maid, who is also having an affair with the son of a schoolteacher, who, in turn, is mixed up with the nymphomaniac daughter of the owner of the local chocolate factory. Although a sombre political note runs through all these complex relationships, the political confusions are less interesting than the amorous ones, and the passions unleashed are well-nigh sufficient to explain the disasters that have...