Word: downs
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Notre Dame's unbeaten team, dead tired of football, kept plugging the Army line, but could not score until Halfback Schwartz ran 54 yards down the mud-puddled, sludgy field for a touchdown in the last five minutes. A drenched crowd of 110,000 went wild when Army blocked...
Caterpillar Jr. Within 100-mi, of Los Angeles, his goal for a "junior transcontinental speed record,"* Gerald Nettleton. 20, of Toledo, Ohio, was hopelessly in the "soup." Floundering at 10,000 ft. in rain, fog and snow he "couldn't see ten feet ahead"; but he knew he was...
No reporter need ask M. Morand what he thinks of Manhattan's skyline: it is all down here in ecstatic black & white. Aside from his few omissions, his book would make a fairly good, nearly up-to-the-minute guide from Battery to Bronx. One of the omissions: speakeasies...
Writers are often human, often have children; but not often have they immortalized their own children by writing about them. Two glistering exceptions are Alan Alexander Milne and Arthur Stuart Menteth (If Winter Comes) Hutchinson. Everyone knows Christopher Robin. Soon a lot of people will know Simon. For in The...
This has been necessitated, Mr. Hammond says, by an innundation of nonresidents, who have used the library and squash-courts to the virtual exclusion of residents. Therefore he has laid down certain restrictions for the future, which he hopes will establish a more logical order of things.