Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Groups of Rifle Club members will leave daily except on weekends from Winthrop House to practice at the Woburn range, and teams will be selected on the basis of this practice shooting Clay pigeon traps and a number of pistol butts are also available for use, but the main stress will be laid on rifle shooting...
Since March 3, a large squad has been practicing on the top floor of the Indoor Athletic Building, but no workouts on the clay courts were possible until last week. From the group of 18 who have been retained, Coach Harry Cowles has selected the following men to meet the Amherst six: Captain D. M. Frame, No. 1; A. W. Patterson '32, No. 2; J. M. Barnaby '32; No. 3; F. B. Broida '32, No. 4; S. E. Davenport, III '34, No. 5; H. W. Cole '32, No. 6. The Amherst players have not been announced. Last year when...
Sirs: If I ever looked upon a tough piece of earthenware; a cracked clay tankard, the handle of which is a huge flyswatter intended, presumably, to be an ear, it is the cut of James Montgomery Flagg in the March 21 issue of TIME. Flagg's mug appears as though it had been clawed by a lion, chewed by a bear and laugh-bitten by a hyena, and, if ever kissed, which I doubt, such a favor would be attempted only by a horsefly or a tarantula. This clay model visage looks like...
...intently listening to music. A swart Mexican accompanied him, explained to Aztecs and Tarascans that it was their own native music the stranger wanted to hear, not the imported hodge-podge played in Mexican cities. The stranger was interested in the rude, primitive sounds made by the chirimia (clay pipe), the marimba made of gourds, the teponaztle, which is the Mexican Indians' drum, the noisy basis for all their music. Indians took to calling the white man Chokopul which means "one of wandering wits...
...opportunity to show their ability may qualify for a berth on the team. Preparations are being made to have the courts ready for use immediately after the recess, but because of the cancellation of the spring trip, the netmen will be considerably rawer when they first step on the clay...