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...sophomore line of Bob McDonald, Tom Murray and converted rear-guard Graham Carter sparked the icemen with buzzsaw forechecking and picturesque plays. Murray notched a hat trick with a goal in each stanza...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Icemen Destroy Colgate, 10-2 | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Crimson freshman Peter Tetlow, who had been ambushed by a Princeton buzzsaw named Curtis Hayden in the 500-yd. freestyle on Thursday, fell again to his Tiger foe in the grueling 1650-yd. event, this time by only two frustrating seconds...

Author: By Dennis P. Corbett, | Title: Tigers Nip Swimmers in Eastern Meet | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...sprightly staccato attacks of the first movement, and a regal unison with Wuorinen which opened the third, were among the evening's most exciting moments. The piece is too long, however, and redundant; too frequently Marx seemed to shriek in the high register or growl in the vulgar buzzsaw sound for which he has been criticized...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Josef Marx Recital | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

...buzzsaw voice rasped between the tarnished silver of a straggly mustache and the soiled afterthought of a goatee. The smutched, shoulder-length mane wagged damply beneath a fly-blown Stetson. "All of that and all of that." The waving arms and lying words swished briefly before gaudy posters of improbable freaks. Somehow, out of the rain-bedraggled midway of the Gratz (Pa.) Fair, a crowd gathered. It always does when the harsh, vocal magic of Colonel Lew Alter begins to turn the tip (con the rubes) into his new "Can It Be Possible?" show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: No More Rubes | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...supplicant walnut men, the University of California's College of Agriculture invented a machine in which the walnuts ride on whizzing belts past a buzzsaw. The buzz-saw nicks a groove in the shells of the nuts. Then, as the nuts pass a tiny aperture, an explosive charge of acetylene and oxygen is shot into each nut. The nut then drops into an ignition chamber where a gas flame ignites the charge. Pop! goes the walnut. Most of the shells drop into one hopper, the meats into another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nut News | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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