Word: catch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early in the second quarter Dartmouth interfered with a fair catch by Buell and the University was given first down on Dartmouth's 23-yard line. Again the Crimson backfield was stopped three times on the line of scrimmage and again Buell missed an attempted goal. But the first score came shortly afterward when the Crimson eleven gained the ball on Dartmouth's 25-yard line through a short kick coupled with a ten-yard penalty. A pass, Buell to Gebrke, followed by a four-yard plunge by Owen, gained first down. Then the visiting line braced for three plays...
...Magellanic Cloud is moving away from us 150 miles every second. By the time the Dudley Street car reached the Cloud's present location, the galaxy would be 556 quintillion miles further on its way. A rocket leaving the earth at 540,000 miles an hour would never catch this baffling, Cloud, but if the speed were kept up, it would "just about hold...
...approach of summer we lose, to be sure, some of the most brilliant constellations of the northern skies: notably, Orion, Taurus, Gemini, and Ganis Major; but, if the skies of summer are less brilliant they are not less interesting. High up in the north is the "dipper", the catch figure of Ursa Major chased by the huntsman Bootes. The brightest star of Bootes is Arcturus, found by following the bend of the handle of the "dipper" to the eastward. Arcturus is one of the few stars whose diameter has actually been measured, although, like all "fixed stars...
Indeed no less person than A. J. Raffieg himself, remarks in the course of the play that all criminals betray themselves through fear, and that so long as he does not fear his pursuers, they will never catch him. But though he does not fear, the audience fears mightlly for (not to mention the girl who of course is introduced into the piece in the approved romantic stlye) with all the blind fear of the hunted. And with admirable logic, A. J. is finally betrayed, not through any fear of his but by a "woman acorned". Raffles on the stage...
...task is so huge and fraught with so many difficulties that only the most adventurous enlist for life, but even so, the whole conference is lifted to high levels and many who do not reach the heights catch visions of service that never leave them even though they follow the Christ haltingly and afar...