Word: cage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first half of the University Handicap Track Meet held yesterday afternoon, 65 men from all departments of the University competed in six events, using both the Stadium track and the track in the Briggs baseball cage. John P. Sheu '35, and Alfred B. Hallowell '34, tied for first place in the mile and a half run, both being clocked at seven minutes, four seconds. Bay Estes 2G.B., took second place in this event, Charles F. Woodard '35, third, and Arthur Pier '35, fourth...
...should be "cuter and less exciting." When Beatty ran away from Chillicothe at 15 to join the circus he found oldtime one- species, one-sex animal acts already too tame to make the public pulsate. People wanted fights. Sure way to start fights was to make the "big cage" a welter of hatred and jealousy by mixing species and sexes. Beatty kept on mixing and adding until by 1930 famed circus Press Agent Dexter Fellows could advertise "Forty (40) Magnificent, Monstrous, Menacing Man-Eaters Miraculously Mingled...
...There was-and there is-about as much cooperation between the Federal Trade Commission and industry as there is between a lion-tamer with a blacksnake whip, a revolver and a strong-backed chair standing in a cage with six jungle cats snapping and snarling on six star-spangled hassocks-that is their version of economic planning. . . . Yet that is the condition these economic genii want to restore. . . . These men have really nothing to support them but the width of their mouths and the volumetric capacity of their lung power. . . . The fact is that they do not know what they...
...Please, Your Honor," whined Pauper William Nodes, 27, in a London court last week, "don't part me and the rat." The judge looked appraisingly at Nodes' pet rat in a cage on the barristers' table, frowned severely at Nodes. Clearing his throat he then did British Justice: "I sentence you, William Nodes, to six months in prison as an incorrigible rogue. The rat will be sent to a good home...
...uncertainty surrounding the makeup of the coaching staff next fall has made it necessary for Coach Casey to handle the players himself during the winter. Fundamentals will be stressed with the emphasis on kicking blocking, and tackling, and the soft earth of the cage is expected to furnish satisfactory footing...