Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete program is as follows: October 3, Bates; October 10, New Hampshire; October 17, Army at West Point; October 24, Texas; October 31, Virginia; November 7, Dartmouth; November 14, Holy Cross; November 21, Yale...
From a box-office point of view, it would probably have been better to have matched the Boston sailor boy with the latest freak of the boxing world. Primo Carnera, Italian colossus. If the latter taken in hand in a good publicity campaign, set up against a whole row of pushovers, all carefully instructed to lie down quietly when the proper time duly arrived, and then sent down to Miami, there would probably be enough gullible sporting patrons to fill several stadiums. They would go to such a match as much to see the giant Italian in action (or inaction...
...discussing the House Plan, President Lowell seems at some pains to avoid the appearance of rushing the thing by emphasizing the point that the idea has been in the minds of the Corporation for some two decades. It seems justifiable to assume that this somewhat anxious stressing of what is at best a flimsy support arises from the consciousness that the completion of the plan is being forced with extraordinary haste. Certainly the statement that all the houses will be ready for occupancy by a year from next September falls as a surprise upon the ears of those who last...
Following the dimensions of the country, the model would be 2,807 feet at its longest point east and west, representing the distance between West Quoddy Head, near Eastport, Maine, to a point due west on the Pacific Ocean. The longest north-south dimension of the model would be 1,598 feet, representing the distance from the southernmost point in Texas to a point due north to the 49th parallel...
...Eielson and Wilkins made their astounding air way across the Arctic from Point Barrow eastward to Spitsbergen, across converging lines of longitude, through shifting fields of terrestrial magnetism-at 135 m.p.h. The late Roald Amundsen, with Lincoln Ellsworth and Umberto Nobile, beat them to the first Arctic air crossing by sailing the semirigid dirigible Norge from Spitsbergen westward across the North Pole to Nome, Alaska. Amundsen was killed two years ago trying to find hapless Umberto Nobile who had been wrecked with his Pole visiting semirigid Italia. Wilkins is now at Antarctica making occasional exploratory flights from Deception Island. Eielson...