Word: barney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were the nation's favorite blood sport, they seldom, if ever, get to test these heady technicalities. On an antique road network, pocked by decades of neglect and choked by 8,500,000 cars and trucks passing relentlessly through one narrow village after another, most drivers consider themselves Barney Oldfields if they can occasionally push speedometers over 30 m.p.h., and they get their thrills by passing on curves or parking on them...
Penn roared back, and with everyone expecting a pass on a fourth down play, Quaker quarterback George Koval threw to end Barney Berlinger deep in the end zone from 11 yards...
Council member Barney Frank '61 last night indicated that he will try to "tone down" some of the wording of the report, and to eliminate some of the "more extreme" recommendations...
Walter W. Birge III '61, Co-chairman of the PBH Social Service Committee, and Barney Frank '61, member of the Student Council, have been working on a plan to have PBH-supervised groups admitted to three or four games next year. If the HAA approves the plan, Birge and Frank will arrange the details this spring...
From 32,000 to 625,000. In 20 years, 50-year-old Barney Kilgore has presided over the transformation of the Wall Street Journal from a Depression echo of Wall Street to the fastest-moving daily in the U.S. Since 1940, circulation has grown 19-fold, from 32,000 to 625,000, ranking the Journal among the top ten U.S. dailies. The country's only real contender for the title of national daily, the Journal is printed simultaneously in New York, Chicago, Washington, San Francisco and Dallas; beginning next year it will be printed near Springfield, Mass...