Word: catch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hidden meaning, and words in current use today retain the meaning which the group of letters gave." And accepting the tradition which exists in Ireland, in Greece and in Egypt of an ancient alphabet of sixteen letters the author seeks to prove that the well-known nursery catch, "Ena dena, dina, do, catch a nigger by the toe, etc.," is this lost alphabet, preserved by generations of children, who repeated it almost subconsciously, perfectly oblivious to the "depth of knowledge buried in the apparently meaningless words...
...most patent features of the new rowing style to the ordinary observer are the hard catch, quick pull-through finishing lower than usual, the lightning shoot of the hands away from the body, the coordination of movement between shoulders and knees throughout. This latter forms the most pronounced break from the system employed by Coach Muller last spring. The latter had his men come all the way forward before moving the slide at at all. The new style calls for proportional movement all around,--first the hands, then almost simultaneously the shoulders follow with the slide starting at once...
...Bjorkman who broke loose and ran back ten yards. Kelley gained nothing on a right end run. Hubbard blocked Haws on the left. An offside penalty put Dartmouth back five yards. Haws smashed through the line for three yards. Kelley kicked to Lee, who signalled for a fair catch on the 20-yard line. Time out while Dartmouth forms a hollow square to enable a Dartmouth man to change his pants. Harvard Band plays to cover up the embarrassing silence...
Dartmouth lost five yards on a penalty. Hall broke through tackle for two yards. On the next play. Hubbard tackled Dooley on the goal line. Hall kicked to Spalding, who signalled for a fair catch on his 40-yard line. Jenkins gained a yard and Hammond on the third play stumbled into Leavitt's arms on the line of play. Hammond kicked to Dooley, who broke away from Hill and took it back 20' yards to the Green 35-yard line. Leavitt ran the ball off side. Hall gained a yard through the line and Haws advanced it four yards...
Strange to relate, there is also a large number of wholesalers, but in spite of this last competition among them has failed to keep prices of coal within the bounds of reason. And therein the Commission has found the catch. While in every crisis consumers have blamed the retailers, retailers have blamed the railroads, and everyone has blamed the miners, who of course must have been perched in Luxury's lap, wholesaler after wholesaler was pocketing his "bit" on the same ton of coal. In their "banner year", indeed, of 1920 each wholesaler who did not handle shipments himself...