Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unofficial but vigorous is the Committee of Twenty on Street and Outdoor Cleanliness, a group of New York City medicos disgusted with the condition of their city's streets. Last week they tempted artists, architects, designers with $750 in prizes for a new and beautiful trash basket or refuse receptacle to be presented to the city for placing at strategic points about the streets. Stoutly Acting Chairman Edward Henry Lewinski Corwin of the Committee of Twenty denied the imputation of New York papers that the contest was for the purpose of creating the Ash Can Beautiful...
...Purple basketeers breaking a long line of defeats, by taking advantage of its height and the opponents' light weight tipped the ball into the hoop time and again while the Crimson dwarfs stretched in vain. Driscoll, high point man, with 16 points to his credit, standing head and shoulders above the Harvard guards, had only to stand under the basket and knock the ball in as it bounced off the board. He sank fouls when Rex and Burns tried to keep him down...
Harvard's basket forces seemed to be suffering from a relapse throughout the game last night while the Crusaders put up an expectedly strong front...
...woven into pallia for Papal bestowal on Cardinals, Patriarchs and Archbishops.* On the feast of St. Agnes last week, two of the most docile of the lambs of St. Agnes were carefully washed with finest soap, garlanded with flowers, trussed together with ribbons, laid in a grass-lined basket, carried to the Vatican...
...Harvard in 1908 and became Austin Teaching Fellow in 1910 and again in 1912 in 1914 he became Curator of North American Archeology at the Peabody Museum and conducted excavations at Pecos, New Mexico, for Phillips Andover Academy. He is the author of several books among which are "Basket-maker Caves of Northeastern Arizona" and "Introduction to Southwestern Archeology...