Word: brisking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact. Because there was only light work eight members of the squad were excused besides the two more seriously injured men, Talbot and Gildea. Crickard, Moushegian, Batchelder, Graves, Faxon, Finlayson, Hallowell, and Baldwin were all missing from practice because of some minor ailments, probably received in Thursday morning's brisk scrimmage...
...public accountant, a garage owner, a Jewish garment-manufacturer, an ex-soldier, a failure. The last chapter tells about the killer, his preposterous motive for his preposterous crimes, what these twelve men voted to do with him. Author Thayer has saved his case histories from being boring by his brisk narration, his breezy bits of salaciousness; the sexual life of his jurymen is as varied as their nationalities, and their author tells much. Illustrator Mahlon Blaine helps him to the best of his ability...
...Conn., June 16--Rough water, which nearly swamped the Freshman and Combination crews in their workouts on the Thames this afternoon, provided the excitement for the day as the Harvard oarsmen brushed up on fundamentals in preparation for the gruelling race with the Eli eight on next Friday. A brisk wind ruffied the surface of the river during both workouts with the result that the University and Jayvee crews stuck to the shore in their morning paddle...
Gales Ferry, Conn., June 6--The Yale first and second University crews headed upstream for two miles in the first workout of the day today. Rowing in the face of a brisk breeze, the Eli eights matched strokes for short distances together under the watchful eye of Coach Leader...
...singled out celestial bodies in the ceiling, told their names. Once the preliminaries were over and Teacher Fox had his 2,700 stars - all those visible from Chicago's side of the earth - in full bloom, he set the universe into action at a dizzy pace. Earth, a brisk little body, made her yearly trip around the sun in four minutes. Neighbor Mars required 7.2 min.; poky Jupiter 47.2 min.; Saturn 2 hr., 56 min. Scurrying Venus made her lap in 148 sec.; Mercury, 58 sec. More levers were manipulated and the heavens went through a violent upheaval. Once...