Word: cage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands and horses and tigers disappeared, schools nevertheless went on teaching the old fundamentals for their cultural value. Eventually progressives, insisting that "to learn tiger-scaring, it is quite helpful to have a real tiger," revolted against the traditional curriculum, found two surviving old tigers, put them in a cage, had children wave torches in their faces, started a Real-Tiger School...
Actual plans for practice include thorough drill on fundamentals and the weekly showing of moving pictures. Plays, faking, and blocking will be particularly emphasized in the practice that will start in the cage and move out as soon as the weather permits...
...preliminary meeting held yesterday in the Carey Cage 15 Freshmen signed up for the Yardling lacrosse squad. With the hardest season in its history ahead, the stickmen, under the coaching of Johnnie Witherspoon, a former All-American star, will practice daily the rest of this month in preparation for the first game immediately after Spring Vacation...
...Soon there moved into this structure an odd assortment of men, women and beasts. Famed Child Psychologist Arnold Gesell brought a children's clinic for studying infant feeding and other phases of moppets' development. Psychobiologist Robert Mearns Yerkes brought his famed apes, clapped them into a huge cage atop one wing of the building and continued to study ape behavior. Psychiatrists brought a group of deranged men & women, locked them up in another wing. With their paraphernalia of rats monkeys, cages, microscopes, slide rules, test tubes and books, in moved other psychologists, economists, educators, historians, statisticians, physiologists...
...present the team is practicing in Briggs Cage, but they will begin outdoor practice as soon as the weather permits. Right now it is difficult to estimate the team's strength on the basis of its indoor activity, however with a defense which is big, fast, and experienced, the prospects look fairly good...