Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veteran, Blake has been playing at number two or three all winter and succeeds the number one man, Captain Alvah W. Sulloway...
...course and on time the big 18,560-lb. ship droned over Fresno, rose to 10,000 ft. to top rugged Tehachapi Mts. Ice began forming on the plane's wings. So about 8:30 p. m. Pilot John Dunbar Graves, 35, a million-mile veteran, turned back, and apparently flew straight into the swirling heart of the storm. An hour later the plane was seen 500 ft. above raging San Joaquin River, surrounded by rocky mountain peaks. Thereafter, six days of search produced no trace...
This play, despite the social axe it has to grind, is pretty much of the famous old black-and-white melodrama. Wall Street is perhaps the real villain, and it is indicted for the murder of all its speculators and their souls. But the old veteran bull, Nicholas Vanalstyne, though he relishes smashing his enemies, wouldn't think of leaving an orphan or a widow dispossessed by him to suffer in penury. His son, heir, and namesake, however, is a rotter pure and simple. He has lived in sin, but he throws the odium of the crime on his innocent...
...other Seniors will be on the front line: Red Lowman, veteran first stringer of three seasons, at forward, and John Herrick, who in his first year on the first team, leads the Crimson scorers with 84 points tallied from his center post...
John Gardiner, veteran of a year ago, is the strongest contender for number five but John Roadway has been rowing there for the last few days because Gardiner has been out with a cold. The other fiver is strong Tom Talbot, who is, however, rather badly out of form. Hard work may bring him more into the running...