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...gallery around the green is the biggest advantage a player can have. If you miss the green, you know the ball isn't going very far. The people just can't step out of the way fast enough. I don't mind a carom shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Prodigious Prodigy | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

Morse got both his goals on carom shots off Yale goalie Nelson. At 16:17 of the first period, with both teams a man short. Grannis brought the puck down the middle, and passed off to Morse. Morse cut loose with a short, hard blast that hit Nelson on the shoulder and dribbled in. Mike Patterson also assisted on the play...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Hockey Six Wins 93; Scores 20th Victory | 3/5/1962 | See Source »

...Glasgow's Royal College of Science and Technology suggested a possible way to squelch the big explosion and bring the universe back into a steady state of vast but stable dimensions. Colliding light beams may lose some of their energy, says Ward, as photons (particles of light) carom off other photons. The loss of energy might cause a lengthening of wave length, and in light-drenched space such energy-diminishing collisions are highly probable. They could explain the Hubble-Humason red shift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: End to Explosion? | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

...Carom Shot." Aboard the big flattop -christened in October by Mrs. Christian Herter and scheduled to go to sea in May -were some 3,500 civilian workers, fitting out the newest queen of the seas. On the hangar deck Navy Lieut. Vito Milano, supervisor of hull construction, was getting things ready for a pep rally to celebrate progress (85% complete) and ask for more. A fork lift truck started to pick up a big steel trash bin; apparently the bin nudged a heavy steel plate, which sheared off the valve of a 500-gallon tank of diesel fuel, used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: The 43rd Fire | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

...that, the Crimson almost escaped unscathed. Georgescu got off a miserable dribbler that just did carom off the post into the goal. Forbush, who played magnificently under pressure, had no chance for the ball. The varsity could not penetrate the Tiger defenses in the remaining...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Varsity Soccer Team Bows, 1-0, On Last-Quarter Princeton Tally | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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