Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Southern California's worst slump in many years continued against a smashing, driving Stanford team that used straight forward power plays to win the Coast's big game at Palo Alto...
...have been only two Dukes. The first, Henry Grey, 12th Earl of Kent, was made a Duke in 1710, died with the title 30 years later. Bulbous, misguided George III revived the title for his fourth son, cantankerous Edward Augustus, in 1799. Edward of Kent was one of the worst tempered men who ever lived. As a Brit ish officer he did his blundering best to squash the Yankee farmers in the American Revolution. For his efforts he was finally raised to the rank of a Field Marshal. His fondness for having soldiers flogged at cannon wheels or blown from...
...more right to be vexed at the impudence of a San Bernardino Naturopath named Emerson B. Hartman than William Bradley Coley, mightily esteemed Manhattan cancer specialist. Naturopath Hartman advertises himself: ''CANCER SPECIALIST using the ANTITOXIN that has CURED the worst cancers known." Although his "antitoxin" is the stuff which Dr. William Frederick Koch, a discredited Detroit physician, exploits, the specious idea behind it skulks in the shadow of the very real cures of certain kinds of bone cancer which Dr. Coley has been able to make with a toxin...
...worst eye-sores about Cambridge is the plot of land controlled by the college on the corner of De Wolfe and Mill Streets. Overgrown with weeds, surrounded by a broken-down fence, it appears to serve absolutely no useful purpose. Meanwhile students are forced to hire costly garages or run the risk of an expensive and annoying appearance in court. The land could be filled in, levelled off with cinders, and turned into a satisfactory parking space at a very nominal cost. A small charge, sufficient to defray the original outlay and to provide for the up-keep might well...
...Federal Aviation Commission's investigation, which last week turned mostly to War, Billy Mitchell looked once more upon Army aviation and found it bad. Chief target for his scorn was the Army's performance in carrying airmail. This he characterized as: "A miserable mess. . . . The worst show I've ever seen anywhere. . . . It's a wonder they weren't all killed...