Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Notre Dame's crack basketball team, paced by Forward Johnny Moir and Center Paul Nowak; its major intersectional game of the season, against New York University; 52-26; in New York...
...title every year since 1928 except 1934 when she went abroad, placed fifth in the world's championship. Last week at Chicago, chic, brown-haired, 25-year-old Skater Vinson. who also rides, swims, sculls and writes ably on, women's sports for the New York Times, won her title for the ninth time, took the pairs title for the fourth with her partner, George Edward Bellows Hill of Boston...
Peeling off their shirts and undershirts in a hearing room in Washington one day last week, a prime collection of mighty-muscled weightlifters offered their prowess and appearance as evidence in Federal Trade Commission proceedings against Robert Collins Hoffman, a strapping York, Pa. body-lover who sells male muscle in the form of lessons, bar bells and a magazine called Strength & Health. Mr. Hoffman had been cited by the Com-mission for unfair competition with his rivals in the muscle-making industry. But the case boiled down to a quarrel between Mr. Hoffman and Charles Atlas, who does business...
...Hoffman, who on the side is president and half-owner of York Oil Burner Co., maintains that Mr. Atlas' "dynamic tension" is "dynamic hooey." Pressed for a definition of "hooey" at FTC hearings last spring, Mr. Hoffman with no hesitation explained that he had traced the word back to the Phoenicians "about 4,000 years before the Flood, not the recent Pennsylvania flood, but the Bible Flood." Then the word "hooey" meant "hoof." "In times of famine," continued Mr. Hoffman, ''it became necessary to eat all the parts of an animal. These parts were ground up into...
...large part of their expensive time sputtering about those incomprehensible Americans. It seemed that in trying to uphold its leg of the three-way gold accord with Britain and France, the U. S. was making the game of international finance entirely too complicated. One banker, related the New York Times, told a story about the governor of a small European central bank "who had come to the World Bank in despair, declaring the American instructions regarding gold completely bewildered him and asking help, only to be informed that these regulations left the World Bank experts...