Word: chucking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he graduated he was awarded the Sheldon Prize Fellowship-$1,500 for a year's travel outside the U. S. He had looked forward to China: he had studied Chinese at Harvard, and he wanted to see what war is like. What he saw made him chuck traveling and go straight to work for the Chinese Government as a translator and writer in the Ministry of Information. Recently he realized the importance of Shansi Province in North China warfare, became impatient with meagre reports which were drifting out, and so decided to go and see for himself...
...court squad, Lon Jourdet, the only alumni coach in the league, will have a completely veteran team available if he wishes to use it. The Quakers will miss Payson Brickley, 1939 captain; Tony Mischo, runner-up for the league's individual scoring crown, and Bill Dignan and Chuck Diven, but they still have Ross Hahn and Bruce Pearce as forwards; Harian Gustafson, football captain, at center, and Captain Gerry Seeders and Bernie Schrieber at the guards. In fact that is the way Pennsylvania will line up, at least for its early games. All of these men saw plenty of action...
...unjaundiced eye, radio chuck-a-lucks like Mu$1co and Pot o' Gold (TIME, Oct. 16) may seem a natural radio retort to cinema's screeno, bingo, bank night, etc. But cinemanagers hate to have their potential customers stay home in the evening. Last month astute, 50-year-old Manager Bob Livingston of the Lincoln, Neb. Capitol tried a remedy for the lure of one radio rainbow: $1,000 to anyone sitting in his theatre instead of at home Tuesday nights when Pot o' Gold's $1,000 telephone call comes. Odds against his losing: about...
Other outstanding backs of the year were Bob Fulton of Winthrop, Chuck Griffith of Kirkland, Don Brew of Eliot, Hugh Harwood of Dunster, Vint Freedley of Leverett, Johnny Felmeth of Lowell, and Jack Bronston of the Dormitory team...
...altered as there is no room to move and until I went home and got a tin jug & basin for our room, 24 women had to wash at the kitchen sink, amongst the cooking & washing up! It really was the limit and I thought I should really have to chuck it. It wasn't so much the discomfort as the feeling one was a prisoner, but now we are getting 48 hours on duty and 24 hours off which has very much changed the situation. The bulk of the girls are youngsters; of course I get fearfully tired...