Word: barkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With this awesome array of talent, one might think George Munger hasn't a worry in the world. But he does; constant experimentation still hasn't produced a quarterback to fill Gene Davis' shoes. In the Penn system, a quarterback must block like a fiend, call signals, and bark signals (Penn uses no huddle) in the best Demosthenesian manner. Jackie McCarthy, a Sophomore converted from end, has top rating right...
...body in the steel casket had come 12,000 miles. On that unnamed island where he was killed, Private Weiner had been a favorite of the native chief. When he died, the natives held a tribal ceremony. They wove a tapestry of bark and sent it along for his parents...
...real reason, observers suspected, was that Thurman Arnold acts with the President's tacit approval. When labor gets uppity, the President slips the leash, and Arnold cuts loose with many a bark & bay. When labor is getting plenty of lumps everywhere else, Mr. Roosevelt hauls Arnold back to the doghouse for a spell...
...human diseases, saps the strength of some 800,000,000 people throughout the world. Although there is no safe drug that directly kills malaria parasites (carried by the Anopheles mosquito), the chills & fever and other symptoms can be controlled by dosing with quinine, made from the bitter bark of the cinchona tree...
...Africa have cultivated the plant, now grow enough for their own use and the whole U.S. besides-if the U.S. can get it. Chemists, however, have discovered ways to stretch the pyrethrum supply by adding "synergistic" compounds-sesamin from sesame oil and asarinin from the southern prickly-ash bark-which make a more poisonous blend than pyrethrum alone...