Word: clever
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other two, caging the puck after some fast passing by the line in the first instance, and in the second case by catching Driscoll, the Yale goal, asleep. Driscoll was removed after the third goal, Schiller taking his place peacock was very much in the play for Princeton, his clever dodging being conspicuous...
These are three distinct types of newspaper stories: the story founded on misinterpreted facts, the story built up by a prejudiced correspondent with a few names and a spiteful imagination, and the story made out of whole cloth by a clever reporter-prevaricator. They indicate the task that confronts the News Bureau...
...Willetts and Claflin was so good that Syracuse could do very little, in fact its only scores were the result of lucky stabs by Ringer, from free-for-all scrim- mages. Wanamaker, who went in for Clark in the second period, scored three goals, mainly as the result of clever passing and stickwork. Phillips distinguished himself by his speed and hard shooting...
...hockey practice yesterday afternoon was the fastest of the season, Teams A and B showing considerable improvement in speed and team-play. The former won, 4 goals to none, two of the scores coming as the result of clever team-play. Captain Willetts appeared in line-up for the first time this season...
...germs of Red Blood and Sex have luckily spread no further. Mr. Pichel's story about "Miss Clearwater's Morals" threatens to lead us into the literary red-light district, but turns out to be only a clever conversational sketch, strained and obscure in places, but entertaining throughout. Mr. Nathan, in going from drama to verse, leaves sex subjects and gives us poetry of real descriptive power and contageous feeling. Mr. Skinner and Mr. Selders both contribution sensible articles of protest: Mr. Skinner against the misleading rhetoric of those who preach "progress" and care not whether they are progressing...