Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average man knows no more about lacrosse than be knows about claiming the Himalayas. The word perhaps conjures up pictures of half-oaked Ojibways laying onto a rawhide ball and each other with sticks of native hickory; but the image is faint, and stops short of modern lacrosse...
Arguing that the American Revolution was not a mistake the Debate Council won its first post-war international debate but the losing due from Cambridge University won the audience with jabs and quips on such American institutions as the drug store and the ball point pen, and kept the more serious-minded Americans searching for an issue to fight...
Others are studying aerials, and how their shape and size affect the waves they send. Antennas with a cone-shaped top, for instance, behave much differently from those with a ball-shaped...
Rugger differs from American football in that the ball is constantly in motion unless a penalty is called and there are no regular plays. Because the action is fluid the coach can't influence actual playing, and the experienced player who can react to a certain situation in the right way will win the game...
...work to do with the team. Golf is famous for its remote-control system of coaching, since the only way to improve is to practice by yourself. By the time a man is good enough to make the team, he presumably knows enough to keep his eye on the ball and not use a driver in a sandtrap...