Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Engineers won the tap-off, but it was for Harvard, represented by T. I. Nido '30 to score the first basket. From the start to the half, the two teams shared the honors with even playing. Harvard continually took the ball halfway up the court and tried for a goal. M. I. T. showed considerable inaccuracy for some time as shot after shot bounced off the back board or dropped off the edge of the basket, but after a time Technology tightened up and took the lead 7 to 4. A rally on the part of the Crimson netted...
...more strenuous preparation for tonight's game ended early in the week, and yesterday's drill consisted in light work in passing, pivoting, and basket shooting, without scrimmage...
...train that he toppled over drowsily and went to sleep at once." The kitten was named Bounder. He enjoyed playing with water (was apt to jump into tubs drawn for the Coolidges if they failed to watch him), delighted in shooting the chutes (back stairs) in a laundry basket, died of nervous exhaustion after a hilarious Fourth of July.* Thus wrote Mrs. Grace Coolidge in the December American magazine. She told of a handsome Maltese-Angora cat which was anathematized by Calvin Coolidge who, disliking fancy breeds, said: "Anyone can see that his name is Mud." But when...
...mind past cure; strained basket ribs, and pale clay mouth opening and closing...
...After I was elected in 1926 I received an invitation signed Walter J. Fahy. . . . I threw it in the waste basket. . . . Then I came on down to Washington and I met [Senator Moses] who said: 'You have not answered Fahy's letter. . . . He's an old friend of Norris and La Follette and he is giving a friendly dinner.' I said 'All right, if that's all there is to it I'll go' and I went...