Word: win
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Clark Hodder's Freshman sextet invades Belmont Hill tomorrow afternoon in an attempt to repeat its 5 to 1 win over the schoolboys in December...
Puritans will hear Lawrence Win-ship, editor of the Boston Globe, speak on "Qualities an Editor Looks for in a New Reporter" in the Senior Common Room Monday night at 7:30 o'clock...
...offensive aggregation." So wrote massive, loudly liberal Columnist Heywood Broun, old New York World sports reporter, in his syndicated column, picking his own 1937 All-America Stuffed-Shirt Eleven. Eliminating a left wing entirely, Leftist Broun put both Sinclair Lewis and Boake Carter at right guard, Dale ("How to Win Friends") Carnegie at quarterback, New York's bumbling Senator Royal Samuel Copeland at fullback. "Because he has a tendency to block the attack of his own side," Mr. Broun, against the advice of friends, made A.F. of L.'s President William Green centre instead of a blocking back...
...While Heldentenor Carl Hartmann continued to win moderate favor as Tannhäuser and Tristan (Flagstad was the Isolde), the remainder of the debutant crop to date caused little excitement. Zinka Milanov (née Kunc), whose three-year contract had been promised only after she had agreed to learn three Italian roles and reduce 25 Ib. in three months, made her U. S. debut in II Trovatore (Leonore). Nicola Moscona, Greek basso, attracted the whole Greek colony to his Ramfis (Aïda). Sturdy American Baritone John Charles Thomas (Germont) saved a Traviata (with Vina Bovy and Nino Martini...
...Sullivan, heaving fluidly in the general direction of Jake. 'Stand up and fight!' Jake stood up, and stepped on John's foot with his ⅛-inch spikes, and Sullivan sent him sprawling with a chopping, sledgehammer blow on the jugular vein. John L. went on to win-in the seventy-fifth round...