Word: frontierisms
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Wittgenstein was once a prize pupil of the Master Leschitizky who taught Paderewski. In those days he had two hands. Year after his Viennese debut came the War. Like any loyal 25-year-old Austrian, he went off to fight. On the way to the Russian frontier his right arm was wounded. He lost consciousness, woke up to find himself in a Russian prison camp. He was shunted about behind the lines, spent six months in Siberia before his group was exchanged for Russian prisoners in Austria...
...Cambridge. The amazing thing is that there was only one substitution in the Harvard line at center. The rest of the linemen played for 60 minutes and did a fine job, considering the opposition they were facing. Captain Herman Gundlach was again the outstanding Crimson man on the frontier. Shaun Kelly played a beautiful game at right end, making many really hard tackles. The Princeton sweep didn't gain much around...
Despite this, it was the line that won praise from both coaches and opposing players at the conclusion of the Purple debacle. Every man on the Crusader team had a sincere respect for the work Adam Walsh has done in building up a frontier that could stop dead the drive of a line that outweighed them by 60 pounds and contained All-America material. All this despite the fact that it was the line that was the coaches' chief worry when practice was just beginning. Right now the backfield's offensive work rests twice as heavily on Eddie Casey...
...Social Frontier," he explains, "will advocate the raising of American life from the level of the profit system, individualism and vested class interests to the plane of social motivation, collectivism and classlessness...
...knows where rodeos started. Prescott, Ariz. held a championship cowboy contest on July 4, 1888. Pecos City, Tex., claims to have had an earlier one. Cheyenne's Frontier Days fiesta, though it has since become better known than Prescott's, started nine years later. Long before any of these, rodeos were part of fiestas in Mexico. There are now over 400 places in the U. S. which hold annual rodeos. Most famed are Cheyenne Frontier Days, the Pendleton Roundup, the Calgary Stampede, Fort Worth Rodeo, the Cowboys' Reunion at Las Vegas, N. Mex. Originally, rodeo events, like...