Word: sams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what Coach Mikkola said yesterday afternoon, following a long session on the Stadium cinders. Furthermore, "some hammer thrower will do 170 feet, and if the wind is all right, some javelin thrower will do 200 feet." There are only two men around here who could possibly accomplish this: Sam Felton in the 16-pound hammer and Don Trimble in the javelin...
When the Senate-approved bill to cut income taxes by $4.8 billion reached the House last week, Minority Leader Sam Rayburn did his best as a Canute. He cried that it was reckless, in these times, to invite deficits: "Hadn't we better stay in a position where we will have the money to defend our shores?" But the House was in no mood for debate or delay. When the vote came, 84 Democrats deserted the Administration. The overwhelming tide of passage...
...England missionaries like Baldwin's grandfather Dwight (he came in 1831) who brought Yankee traders to commercialize it. It was Dwight's son, bushy-bearded, one-armed Henry Baldwin (he lost the other arm in a cane-mangler) who built the Baldwin dynasty. He went partners with Sam Alexander, son of another missionary. At a cost of $80,000 and harrowing effort, Henry built the 17-mile-long Hamakua Ditch to bring irrigation to the cane fields. With son Frank, he once swam a flooded gulch in order to get to church. Through such God-fearing boldness, coupled...
...five members of the team who are making the circuit include Captain Sam Savage '46, Bill Rickenbacker '49, Jack Denton '59, Bob Matson '50, and Ozzle Keiver '48. Coach Barclay will not be able to make the trip with this group. Varsity Golf Schedule March 31 North Carolina at Chapel Hill April 1 V.P.I. at Blacksburg, Va. 2 Virginia at Charlottesville 9 Boston College 16 Boston University at B.U. 23 Boston Coll. at Commonw'lth 26 Boston University 28 Brown May 1 M.I.T. 5 Amherst 7-8 Eastern Intercollegiates: Princeton, Columbia, and Yale 15 Eastern Intercollegiate Playoff...
...Were he in America, he would have made a great capitalist." Both parties to the deal stood to gain by it, and neither had anything to lose. In Hollywood, there were a few who called it a good deal only by comparison with the "confiscatory" 75% tax. Producer-Director Sam Wood spoke for the optimists: "Removal of the tax gives the green light on the greatest surge of production in Hollywood's history...