Word: start
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the spectators own the sport, as they now own intercollegiate football, the players are professionalized regardless of how they are recruited or subsidized, regardless of whether they play for dear old Rutgers, or for cheers and newspaper headlines, or for membership in fraternities, or for a head start in business afterward. When the spectators own the sport the players don't own it. They don't play the game for its own sake. They are entertainers. And out of that fundamental fact flows the whole business of professional coaches, barnstorming exhibitions, underhand evasion of the rules and the conception...
...Start in Life: Country school teacher...
...racers for South American air transportation are Pan-American Airways and New York, Rio and Buenos Aires Line. The latter, of which onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce William Patterson MacCracken is now board chairman, last week had most of its planes and pilots at their stations alert to start their service between Manhattan and Buenos Aires...
...Manager C.E. Galston '30 will outline to the candidates the plans for winter track and field activity. Last year over 100 men reported, and it is hoped that this year will bring out as many as 120 men. The first few weeks of the preliminary training, which will start at once, will be devoted to general practice sessions with frequent time trials...
...there were perhaps there or four outstanding ones. J. W. Fecker made a report on the work done to date on the 70 inch disk cast by the Bureau of Standards in Washington. This has been an object of interest to all astronomers since 1921 when work was first started. After five failures, they have at last succeeded in making a start which seems likely to be successful...