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Word: archimedean (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southern Baptist Institute of Technology, where he goes to teach engineering. To drill a little knowledge into the classroom cementheads he adopts football lingo. Chorus the enlightened mastodons of the monosyllable: "It's fun to think." Soon Fodorski gets a chance to apply his Archimedean magic to the great gridironic decisions of educational life, like defeating S.B.I.T.'s football rival. Texas Mohammedan. Fodorski's human pinwheel and pyramidal enemy line-scaling plays make him "All-American coach of the year" and. together with a display of pectoral muscularity called Physical Fitness, give the show its most rollicking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Wheeze-Bang | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

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