Word: win
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Manuel Azaña. This Government's removal of itself from Valencia to Barcelona (TIME, Nov. 3), Socialist Baron reported, "has been very unpopular, both as an admission of failure and because of the political complications that are likely to follow. The failure of the Government to win any victory has depressed the population. Even the Brunete offensive, which was intended to relieve pressure on Madrid, did not succeed...
...first Hollywood vehicle; blonde Frances Farmer's first appearance in a sarong. Navy Blue and Gold (Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer). "As long as you wear the navy uniform," says old grad Lionel Barrymore to the football squad in Navy Blue and Gold, "nobody cares greatly whether you win or lose. But Navy cares greatly how you play the game." How they play the game in this film, under the hipper-dipper cinema coaching of Hollywood Director Sam Wood, is enough to make old-time Annapolis Coach Navy Bill Ingram turn over in his present berth...
...team weakness is on pass defense, where the backfield is occasionally fooled. California came last week to its annual game with Stanford, having decisively won all its games excepting a 0-0 tie with Washington. Stanford, the most erratic team on the Pacific Coast, still had a chance to win the right to play on New Year's day in the Rose Bowl by suddenly emerging in one of its "hot" spells. During the first period 85,000 fans shivered in the rain as the teams tentatively tired each other out. In the second period California's "Thunder...
...Wallace Wade's undefeated Blue Devils were favorites to win the Southern Conference championship this year. In the first period of its game against North Carolina last week, Duke led, 6-to-0. In the second period something went wrong; North Carolina's Crowell Little went through right tackle for a touchdown and Tom Burnette kicked the extra point. In the final three minutes North Carolina scored a superfluous touchdown to underline the upset-of-the-week: North Carolina 14, Duke...
...incidentally football players. In 1934 Harvard received a sound trouncing from Yale on the gridiron. Football here was at a low ebb, both with regard to achievement and morale. Then, if never before, voices from all sides insisted that with the new commercialization in college competition Harvard could not win unless some modification of the "student first" rule took effect. Perhaps not proselytism in all the materialism of the term, but some arrangement to make it easier for stars to come here. On November 26 the Crimson joined others in expressing this view...