Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...records Koch needed patience, ingenuity and a complicated apparatus. For a year an enormous van had to be moved back & forth between two big British zoos to catch the llama's hollow mating cry, the spotted hyena's angry laugh, the binturong's exhibitionist catcall. Koch spent some sleepless nights...
Sportswriters agreed that "rugby américain" would never catch on in France because "it was too much like an autobus collision." The part of the game the Parisians liked best was the huddle, "when they gather to cheer . . . before each play." At the opening game confused spectators, uncertain when to cheer, decided after a few plays that the huddle was the logical one. The equally confused U. S. footballers, who-unable to hear their quarterbacks-misunderstood their signals, wondered whether the acoustics would be better in Toulouse, Marseille, Bordeaux...
Heart of the North (Warner Bros.). The Arctic Queen is steaming up the Yukon River with a shipment of gold and furs. And then? Bandits in fur caps remove its cargo. And then? The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who keep their coats on even when paddling canoes, contrive to catch the bandits...
Gene Murphy, Dudley center fielder, saved the game in the last of the seventh by an outstanding catch of a long line drive in deep center field and then a perfect throw to first to complete a double-play...
...fast, exciting hockey all the way through. Brilliant saves by Freedley, who replaced Mittell as netminder early in the game, were the only thing that prevented the Olympics from scoring at least twice in the last period. Most spectacular of these came when he dropped his stick to catch a well-placed penalty shot from the stick of Cliff Thompson, Olympic forward and former Stoneham star...