Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first base; but he is paid money, this dilapidated curmudgeon, for one distinguishing asset-the length of his nose. He smells news as a hound smells an opossum. He drew a circle in red crayon around the advertisement of Mr. Slack, threw it in a basket, sent it to the City Editor, who handed it to a Bright Young Reporter. To Stamford, Conn., hastened the B. Y. R. His nostrils quivered also. Headmaster Slack was the opossum. Next day, in the great daily, appeared a front-page headline: "PREP SCHOOL CUTS RATE FOR STAR ATHLETES." Headmaster Slack...
...play for insignificant reasons, and than exit into obscurity--loose ends unconnected with the remainder of the plot. Rosner, for example, has apparently no better excuse for being in the play than to provide the hero with the indispensable automatic. The gun, together with an unemptied waste basket, remains conspicuously placed in the office of a busy business man for twenty four hours; of course nobody disturbs it because on the following day the business man, in the course of melodramatic events, must toy with the suicide idea. For this an automatic is indispensilge; we know, because we have tried...
Team work was the issue on which the game was decided. Throughout the two twenty-minute halves, the former Crimson players were unable to penetrate far into the five-man cordon thrown about the Harvard basket. In the second half, Gordon recaptured some of his last year's long distance skill, but the visitors offense was never dangerous...
...coordination of Coach Wachter's starting team last night that warrants optimism on the part of the Crimson basketball enthusiasts. This was all the more obvious in contrast with the individual playing of the visitors, who rarely succeeded in cutting-in to the basket. Gordon and Fitts with three goals apiece accounted for all but two points of their team's total, the other score being credited to Depolo, a former Harvard student ineligible to play, who started the game in place of D. E. Egan...
Having cut his squad of well over half a hundred to the more workable size of 40, Coach Wachter has been sending his charges through a stiff daily drill in the fundamentals of the game. Handling the ball, passing and basket shooting are expected to form the bulk of the practice for some time to come...