Word: centering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cockroach. According to our informant he was a well fed and healthy-looking specimen, as yet unimpaired by his diet. When first observed he was ambling steadily across the tiled floor. One of the House scientists spotted him, gathered him up and inverted a glass over him in the center of the table, with the apparant intention of studying his life habits...
...returned to his home in Manhattan and the civilian occupation of painting. Naturally he wanted to paint the most extraordinary thing that ever happened to him, but there was a living to earn. He earned it by drawing decorative maps for magazines and decorators. Last week, however, at Rockefeller Center's British Empire Building in Manhattan he exhibited the newly completed job in which his heart had been for 20 years: the Battle of Jutland and the surrender at Scapa Flow on canvas...
...center, Samson-he could take out all seven of the opposing linemen at once. For guards. Peter the Rock and Moses-Moses was so rugged, strong and able to give and take the gaff I'd not only make him a guard but put him on the Football Rules Committee, too. . . For halfbacks: Joshua, of whom the Bible says that he 'passed through,' and Daniel, who was resolute and stuck to the right. I'd put Daniel in charge of the training table, too, he showed he knew his simple fare was better than the pyorrhea...
Interest will center around the Stubbs' sextet who will be attempting to stretch its victory string, started after a defeat at the Big Green's hands just a year ago, to sixteen straight wins. Betting odds still favor the Crimson pucksters, but the home team is given a better than fighting chance to reverse that decision because of their fine showing at the Boston Garden last months when Captain Ford saved the Harvard cause with two markers in the last period...
Moved up to a berth at right wing on the first line, veteran Louis Carr is the only change in the Crimson lineup since the Princeton game before the long layoff. Coach Stubbs will start his smooth working pair of George Ford and Austie Harding as center and left wing respectively on the first line. Johnny Mechem has joined George Roberts and Neddie Cutter once more and perhaps now this line which went so well last year will start to function again. Joe Patrick will be flanked by Ralph Pope and Win Jameson on the third line...