Word: overnight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squad will be limited to ten men on its first overnight trip to of the season, and Lee Bird, Franny Simpson, Jack Penson, Bob James, and Joe Romano got the call to act as reserves. Simpson and Bird have so far seen little service, but the other three have alternated with Rothschild, Finegan, and Buckley in all three gams...
Miss Campbell, who has been at this school seven years, knows her children and their families well. She stops to chat at their houses, is often invited to their parties or to stay overnight. Brought up in Iowa City, where she graduated from high school, she studied at Cedar Falls State Teachers College (Iowa) for a year, then began to teach. She does not smoke or drink. Weekends she has dates with a young Iowa City storekeeper. Because she likes to be independent she does not expect to marry for a while. She keeps up with developments in her profession...
Number two also stocky and small, team, he became a hero overnight last year when he played five minutes in the Army game and completed three out of four passes which resulted in a Harvard touchdown. Except for a couple of minutes last Saturday, he has never again played in a Varsity football game. He's "too small" and "too slow." But in practice he burns the turf off the practice with enthusiasm. His name is Bob James, and this last week he has held up sandbags for the A-team backs to block during practice...
...start a newspaper of his own. He set wreckers to work tearing down a three-story apartment house one block off Zanesville's main street. When he learned that the job would take two weeks, he brought in crews and equipment from his mines, wrecked the building overnight. Then, under floodlights, working night & day, his men started putting up a new $75,000 brick, steel and concrete newspaper plant...
Herbert Hoover is a humanitarian, an unpractical politician. His characteristic proposal, overlooking the very nature of warfare, was greeted with wide disapproval. Yet hardly had his critics' chorus died down when Mr. Hoover's one overnight convert, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, stuck out his tanned neck to echo the same idea. But Lindbergh went further than the Great Engineer. Denouncing Canada's entry into World War II, he asserted that "sooner or later" the U. S. must "demand the freedom" of all European possessions in the Western Hemisphere as a defensive tactic...