Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when she learned that he was employed as a messenger in the Ministry of Marine. His job was to carry important documents from one office to another, also to collect and burn all waste paper in every office every night. Documents he photographed or copied. From the scrap-basket scribblings he managed to guess very shrewdly just what plans were under consideration. The beautiful Camilla smuggled the documents out of the country to France and Jugoslavia in the frames of oil paintings. Both confessed, both were condemned to death though King Vittorio Emmanuele forestalled French martyrdom by commuting Camilla...
...first, led by J. O. Brew 4G, will continue the excavations begun in 1931 on Alkali Ridge, in the San Juan drainage of Southeastern Utah. Alkali Ridge is covered with hundreds of ruins, dating from the pit house of Basket-maker times to the many-roomed stone structures of Puoblo III. The object of the expedition is to define the Pueblo II culture, which has never been determined. Thirteen sites were excavated last year with gratifying results...
...live he turned to the Fire Department which is organized on military lines. To the firehouse he went, ordered the hose laid out, set up his headquarters. Then he gave Uruguay's model Constitution three well-aimed kicks. Last week it had fallen apart like an old basket...
...only two games all season. In the middle of the second period, at Corvallis last week, Oregon was leading 21 to 20. Two minutes before the game ended, Oregon State, trying desperately to catch up, had slipped farther behind, 26 to 23. Red MacDonald. State guard, holed a long basket, but 20 sec. before the final gun Oregon was still a point ahead. Stevens, Oregon guard, fouled MacDonald; MacDonald sank the penalty shot to tie the score, gave Oregon State the chance it needed to win, 32 to 27, in the extra period...
...Harvard Junior Varsity basket-ball team will meet Fitchburg at Fitchburg at 8 o'clock this evening...