Word: cage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basis of a week of practice in the Briggs Cage, Coach Fred Mitchell will make the first cut of the season this afternoon when he pares the battery squad down to working proportions. At the present time Mitch has nearly a score of men working under his tutelage on the indoor diamond and from this number he expects to drop several before today's session is closed...
Clark Hodder, mentor of the strong Freshman outfit, has a squad of about the same relative strength as the Varsity. His three lines have torn their opponents apart to make 122 goals, while a strong defense has prevented more than 16 pucks from entering the Harvard cage. Weeks, Roberts, and Cutter will start on the line...
...which he exaggerates as much as possible. Instead of chattering encouragement to his teammates, the method by which most goalies relieve their nervous tension, he munches slowly a huge wad of chewing gum, rarely speaks a word during a game. Instead of waving his arms, he lounges against his cage as if it were a mantelpiece. All this helps mask his real capabilities: preternaturally quick eyes, phenomenal ability to spread his bulky frame across his goal...
Leopold was a Coburg, son of Belgium's Leopold I, who was the uncle of Britain's Victoria. Starting with practically nothing, the Coburgs prospered mightily during the 19th Century. A go-getting son of a go-getting father, Leopold II regarded his little kingdom as a cage, and he looked to business as a field for the absorption of his surplus energies. The proper business for a king was, of course, the development of an overseas empire. It mattered little to Leopold that the world had been pretty well partitioned by 1850; it mattered little that Belgium...
...genius for absorbing other people's businesses gives his partners plenty to do. The four or five who mill around the New York Stock Exchange floor could never transact all their customers' business on a busy day. Four more are locked in a cashier's cage all day signing checks and certificates. Others buy and sell commodities. Curb shares. Those who do not have offices congregate in a great partners' room filled with rolltop desks. But even the oldest employe cannot remember all the partners meeting at once...