Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over Portland, Ore. one day last week buzzed a trim two-motored airplane that outwardly looked like any other U. S. aircraft, but inwardly was as different as a hickory basket from a ship's hull. For while the skeleton of other planes is built up of longitudinal braces, bulkheads and stringers, the framework of this Greenwood-Yates Geodetic Bi-Craft is woven of spruce strips. It resembles nothing more than a woven basket covered with fabric to keep out the breeze, powered with two 50-h.p. engines to pull it through the air. Its structure is called geodetic...
...father of a united Czechoslovakia. On his birthday (it would have been his 89th), thousands of Czechs, mostly peasants in national costume, trudged to his grave in a little country churchyard 20 miles from Prague. There they silently prayed that the four eggs he put into the CzechoSlovakian basket (Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, Carpatho-Ukraine) might not be any further broken...
Jumping into the lead in the final minute of play on a basket by Hal Lubchansky, the Harvard Jayvee basketball team concluded a fairly successful season by handing a 43 to 41 defeat to the Yale Junior Varsity quintet in a closely contested game in New Haven Saturday night...
...game started very slowly with the Crimson second team of Bird, White, Ruml, James, and Sullivan holding its own for about five minutes. It was almost six minutes before Tony Mischo could tally the first basket of the evening, and this seemed to serve only as a single to start the Red and Blue attack rolling. They began to hit on all cylinders with "push 'em up" Tony Mischo and Harlan Gustafson leading the way to a 23 to 12 halftime margin...
Again it was apparent that the Crimson hoopsters are simply not good shots --that was their glaring weakness last night. And, what was worse, they never exhibited much drive for the basket even when presented with a slight opportunity for a quick break. Possibly, if they would play with the idea of driving in a shoot, foul or be fouled, they could do something against League teams which obviously have more ability than the Crimson do on set shots...