Word: win
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...win back his prestige with the Socialist rank & file, Vice Premier Blum judged correctly, was to sound clarion calls for action to achieve such old favorite Socialist "reforms" as nationalization of French railways and to demand that the Senate be made subordinate to the Chamber. "Remember how this was done," cried Orator 'Slum, "in the case of the House of Lords in England...
...Standish Medina, suffering from a pulled leg muscle, with a 13-ft. pole-vault. Though President Pennington took the 100 and 220-yd. sprints handily and President Brown breezed to victory in the quarter mile, these three victories in the field > proved invaluable when Princeton-Cornell proceeded to win both the mile and two-mile runs to bring their total to five firsts. As at Cambridge fortnight ago, the outcome of the meet hung on the half-mile run and the feet of Arthur Godfrey Kilner Brown, combined team captain...
Baseball tradition says that the teams that lead the major leagues on July 4 will win the pennants. Another criterion of the baseball races is the players' performances in the annual All-Star game. Inaugurated in Chicago as an Exposition stunt, the All-Star game between an American League team and a National League team, picked by fans' votes, has provided plenty of celebrities but undistinguished baseball. This year the fans had no say in the team selections and Managers Bill Terry and Joe McCarthy, who managed last year's pennant-winning New York Giants...
...Carnoustie and the nearby Burnside course, over which the qualifying rounds were played, are no harder going than any seaside course with tight fairways and pit-pocked greens. Horton Smith of Missouri, whom a slump had kept out of the Ryder Cup play, stroked out two smooth 695 to win the medal...
...gallery trebled as, spurning waterproof clothes lest they bind his swing, the lithe, hawk-faced Cotton shot the first five holes of the final nine in four deliberate 45 and a 3, misputting only on the 18th for a 5. Needing only two more 45 and a 5 to win, he made the next two holes in 3 and 4, cautiously took 5 on the last, to finish with a par 71, topping Whitcombe by two strokes. He had won his second British Open championship when Lacey stormed in shortly afterward with a 72, to finish third...