Word: wood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gardella was discovered last year as a suitable successor to Vernon Struck at full-back. Harlow's deceptive offense depends on the spinner, and it is on this post that Dick and his backfield assistants Johnnie Wood and Struck will devote a lot of attention and worry. Sophomore Fred Spreyer, who is at present slated for the wingback berth, may quite possibly switch positions with Gardella. On Frazier Curtis falls the nearly impossible job of filling the combined shoes of Cliff Wilson and Chief Boston as blocking back. As leader of the interference and key man on the defense, this...
With the exception of one appointment, the coaching staff will remain unchanged. Under Harlow on the Varsity will be Wes Fesler in charget of ends; Lyall Clark, line; and John Wood and Vernon Struck, backfield. Skip Stahley will continue with the Yardlings, and Henry Lamar remains with the Junior Varsity. Cliff Wilson has been named to assist Lamar...
...Belfast shipyard last week. Formidable, indeed, was the launching. As if sensing the pressure under which the had been built, anxious to get into the water as soon as possible, H. M. S. Formidable waited only for a crowd to gather, a band to tune its instruments and Lady Wood, wife of Britain's Secretary of State for Air, who was to christen the ship, to clear her throat, before slipping its poppet, breaking a cradle, careening down the ways. The wife of a shipyard employe was killed, 20 were injured. Caught napping, the band burst frantically into Rule...
...creation of a civilian advisory committee to work with the joint Army & Navy Munitions Board. Its personnel: Able Edward R. Stettinius Jr., young (38) whitehaired chairman of U. S. Steel Corp.; American Telephone & Telegraph's President Walter S. Gifford; Sears Roebuck's Brigadier General Robert E. Wood, who, as Acting Quartermaster General, directed U. S. Army purchases in 1918; able though little known John Lee Pratt, a retired vice president of General Motors; M. I. T.'s Physicist Karl T. Compton; Brookings Institution's Economist Harold G. Moulton...
...Reader Hay wood (TIME, July 7) stand corrected...