Word: records
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...starting five for the home squad will be composed entirely of Sophomores. Bill Webber at the other forward post, Bud Finegan at center, and Ed Buckley and Joe Romano at the guards were all members of last year's speedy Yardling five that ended the season with a record of twelve wins and two defeats...
Eccentric (Jimmy McPartland's Squirrels; Hot Record Society). Another group of lively antiquarians revive a lively hot antique...
...Harvard dormitories, on the day of the Harvard-Yale football game, staff members of The Yale Record, undergraduate funnypaper, planted a spurious edition of The Harvard Crimson, undergraduate daily. Alarmed Harvard-men read that President James Bryant Conant had resigned, would be replaced by Yaleman Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago. Also headlined was a report that Football Coach Richard Cresson Harlow, who is also a Harvard associate in oology, would become a Yale professor of ornithology because "ornithology has always been my main interest and I have always maintained that birds lay bigger and better eggs...
...under 1929. That, say U. S. shoemakers, is giving the U. S. pedestrian a lot of shoe for his money. To the shoe industry, that also means a lot of business for its prices: 1936 and 1937 sales topped the 400,000,000-pair mark (an all-time record, 60% over 1929), and 1939 is expected to do it again...
...week, to relate with exactness what he did and said, to tell in their own words what the contemporaries thought or printed about it (Nicolay & Hay, Lamon, Herndon and the other biographers bearing witness among hundreds less known), and to let his own extraordinary insight play upon the record. As an incidental part of this process, he brings to life the principal political, journalistic and military figures that surrounded Old Abe from his first week in Washington to the end. His extended portrait of Charles Sumner, for example, is masterly...