Word: win
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...win, one loss, and one tie was the unimpressive record of Coach Joe Stubbs Varsity hockey charges in their vacation engagements with New York sextets...
Dartmouth amassed 500 points to win. With Williams capturing second honors with 421.24 points, and Harvard following with 420.13. Other team scores were: Yale 410.35, Cornell 227.54, Penn State 218.90, Bowdoin 217.76, Middlebury 208.03, Colgate...
Each spring almost every team in both baseball leagues announces confidently that it will win the pennant; before the championship fight both challenger and defender are sure they will knock out the other. Likewise, in beginning this year's dogfight, the government and big business, with labor sandwiched somewhere in between, have sounded the note of war. The Administration, which should, because of its position, be acquainted with the virtues of tact and temperance, has obviously blown its trumpet too hard and very flat. On the other side, both business and labor have shown by their utterances that they...
Helen, in her hour of need, thinks of a lifesaving lie-she killed the broker to protect her honor. Then Husband Kenneth can win fame defending her. After a trial scene which includes the most insane re-enactment of a murder ever photographed. Helen is acquitted, Kenneth's career begun. Now publishers compete for Helen's written fictions. Only one thought clouds Kenneth's bliss: Helen has killed a man. Suppose, she hints, she hadn't really killed him: just imagine, for the sake of argument, that she was lying. . . . But Kenneth is more desolated...
...that "the law will not permit an officer of a corporation to make a private profit for himself in the discharge of his official duties," Judge St. Sure ordered Banker Fleishhacker to give an accounting to the Anglo stockholders. Heavy-jowled Herbert Fleishhacker retorted: "We'll appeal and win." His lawyer, quick-tongued John Francis Neylan, sniffed: "I view the matter as a rather interesting development in an episode that is far from ended...