Word: coasters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several other colleges have met the situation by introducing "big-time" football and placing it on a professional basis. As a result, gate receipts and educational endowments have gone hand in hand. The H.A.A. quite evidently intends to quit the roller coaster. John Harvard's athletes cannot let their legs get caught in the stocks of athletic receipts...
...widely over the school grounds that to visit them all would mean a 40-mi. automobile drive. The school and other Hershey companies own nearly everything in the town, including the golf course, the trolley line, the water and electric companies, the department store, the laundry, the roller coaster. With an annual income from its trust fund of $1,675,000, Hershey Industrial School is continually under pressure to expand, has lately piled up embarrassingly large surpluses...
...Gold Coast-Rabbit game Johnny Hallett's home run brought a 4-0 victory for the Gold Coaster. The summary: Score--Kirkland 6, Winthrop 5. KIRKLAND WINTHROP Sieman, 2b. ss., Crampton Peter, cf. 3b., Letarie Parker, 1f. 2b., Randall Caley, rf. 1b., Bittenbender Christophe, 3b lf., Emery Powell, 1b. ef., Leon Moweley, ss. p., Baker Donnelley, Robinson, c. c. Egan Wells, p. rf., McDonald
...Tennyson correct when, with awful Victorian punctilio, he wrote of a dove and a young man's fancy. It is only a time when for a few weeks a man will spend his pay check on poor movies, bad beer, a rented canoe, and a ride on a roller coaster. And all because the shrubs grow greener upon the Lorelei in spring. Poets and songsters have been wrong; but the rugged, hard-headed, unsentimental Angle-Saxons in their far-off wisdom had a four letter word...
...slight, sandy-haired man who gets ideas for some editorials while riding on a roller coaster in Louisville's amusement park, Editor Armentrout remained in jail long enough to pay the price of 50? rather than "50 licks with a black lash" for joining a prisoners' Kangaroo Court. After one hour his lawyer got him out on a writ of habeas corpus...