Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company (Bona Allen leather company) that owns the team. The other half of the semi-pro class play on teams owned by small-town merchant groups or individuals with $5,000 and a yen to own a ball club. They include many a onetime major-leaguer on his way out, many a schoolboy on his way up. But the backbone of the semi-pros are barbers, butchers, lumberjacks, bootblacks and other workmen who play baseball three times a week (two twilight games and one on Sunday) for a little extra revenue (usually $2 to $5 a game). They are content...
Directors Cahill and Parker are them selves surprised at the way small towns and cities have responded. In Sioux City, Iowa, last winter the local Plumbers' Union, WPA carpenters, the High School manual training classes, a local fur dealer and the Junior League all labored together to give Art a fitting home. In Salem, Ore., a retired professor contributed the first $100 and 2,000 school children chipped in. In Greensboro, N. C., the Community Centre was established in a busted bank and is now regarded by adjacent businessmen as a far greater asset in the location than...
...published his telepathy theories, "ExtraSensory Perception" (ESP) became the brief rage of women's clubs all over the U. S. Commander Eugene Francis McDonald Jr., energetic president of Zenith Radio Corp. and long a believer in thought transference, saw a chance to prove his belief in a big way by putting ESP on the air. Zenith sponsored network radio experiments in the Rhine technique, put the tests in the scientific hands of Northwestern University's Psychologists Drs. Louis Deal Goodfellow and Robert Harvey Gault...
Result of an Alaskan gold prospector's spraining his ankle 28 years ago was the creation of a luxury product with an amazing consumer appeal. The prospector was Jacob Schick. Forced to lie in camp several weeks, he spent much of his time thinking up a way to make some money. Rubbing his stubby beard, he hit on the idea of a mechanical shaver. But Schick electric shavers did not appear on the market until 1931, and these first hand-made models sold at $25. Many a man began to wonder how he had got along without one. When...
...winters and isolation add themselves to the charm of the Abbey's sombre architectural beauties. Finally even Andre's aversion to accepting tips is nibbled away. He still tells himself his job is only a makeshift, but when he is offered a better place, and finds a way to refuse it and throw out his wife at the same time, he jumps at the chance...