Word: basket
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Geological evidence indicates that a Folsom campsite in Colorado may be as much as 25,000 years old. After Folsom Man there is a long gap to the remains of Siberian immigrants, perhaps 4,000 or 5,000 years old, found by Hrdlicka in Alaska. Then come the "Basket-Makers" who lived in the southwestern U. S. about 15 centuries B. C. and who preceded the Indians whom white invaders found...
...author was a wealthy, two-fisted Dallas wildcatter named Chester Allen ("Chet") Everts, who ran away from home at the age of u and made his pile in the oil fields. Wall Streeters, who know what it is to be spanked for selling strawberries without showing the whole basket, trembled for his hide. Last week SEC, not a connoisseur of Americana, spanked him. A sorry ad appeared in the Wall Street Journal: "... I have been notified by the Securities and Exchange Commission that in publicly making that offer I had violated their rules. My offer therefore is hereby publicly withdrawn...
Lubchansky is a good shooter and a shifty dribbler. Stewart is excellent in pivot-work, and scored most of his goals in that fashion. Probably the steadiest player on the whole team is Cordingley; he is especially apt at feeding the ball to other men under the basket...
...game started out to be a seesaw affair, and up till 16 to 16 neither team could get a lead. The Ed Buckley and Sam White sank foul shots, Bud Finegan dropped a goal from under the basket, and Charley Lutz dribbled through the Yale defense to score, and Harvard was out in front by six points. A moment latter Buckley and Franny Simpson scored again and the margin went up to eight. The score at the half kept this lead intact...
...game was a fast one with the ball traveling back and forth, up and down the floor, but the Crimson offense was not able to break through a stubborn Quaker defense and get close shots at the basket...