Word: wee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wee Willie McLean, one of the five Scotsmen on his team, scampered down the left side of Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, took a neat pass from the inside man, gave the large round leather ball a clever kick with the toe of his right shoe. It sailed past Chesney, the New York Americans' goal guard, into the net behind the goal. That was less than two minutes after the second half began but it was enough to win, 1 to 0, the first game of the two-out-of-three series in the final round...
...affiliated associations, each one containing from 25 to 300 clubs. Any number of teams, amateur or professional, can enter the tournament for the Challenge Cup which is played off first in local tournaments, then by states, finally in an intersectional series between winners from the East and West. Wee Willie McLean's team, Western winner this year, is composed entirely of professionals who play to advertise the Stix, Baer & Fuller Department Store of St. Louis. Five of the men on it-McNab, McPherson, Gonsalves, Nilsen, Watson-used to play for Fall River; McLean played for the Chicago Bricklayers...
...Pontiac Motor Car hour Engineer William Shearer is the juggler who balances the comical dialog of Stoopnagle & Budd with a big mixed chorus; makes wee Jeannie Lang, a whispering soprano, sound as effective as William O'Neal, a full-blown tenor...
Past experience would tend to show that the Yale plan would not be entirely satisfactory at Harvard. All considerations do point to the use of a central bureau; after that, suggestions can only be preferred. However, if all Freshmen wee to be assigned to Houses automatically through a central bureau, it would seem logical to permit them to put down on their applications one choice of a House incases where there might be real land valid reason for so doing: having had a brother in the House, having all close fiends there, finding the desired tutor only in that House...
...dictator, "Little Dollfuss" had sat up with his Cabinet until 1a. m., at which hour he issued a decree stating that Austria was without a parliament,* from which it followed that the Chancellor was supreme. This was confirmed by President Miklas of Austria who received "Little Dollfuss" in the wee hours, endorsed what he had done and went through the formality of refusing to accept a resignation which Dictator Dollfuss proffered, then repocketed...