Word: clicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great against Toronto, the team suffered a let-down when it tackled the Big Green on Saturday night; watching them gave one the definite impression that they were overconfident. They tried hard, but they just couldn't seem to click. Added to this, the sterling defensive play of Don Otis and football captain Bennett helped the Dartmouth team keep the score down and give Harvard's rooters an unpleasant scare...
Princeton had difficulty in making their offense click in the second half; while the Feslermen led by Lowman, Struck, and White, a starter Saturday evening, piled up an imposing lead before the period was half over. With their team trailing 43-29 Jack Appel and Ralph Scofield of Princeton combined to effect a six point rally but Vruwink who accounted for four goals the visiting team again pulled away...
...first ten minutes of play the teams seemed evenly matched, neither being able to advance the ball beyond the 30-yard line. Then the Harvard offense began to click, and when the teams changed ends, the ball rested three yards from the Yale goal...
...amateur snapshotters are Fairchild cameras. An inexpensive model costs more than $1,000, and the most popular number sells for about $4,000. This model has one lens, is operated automatically by electricity. After the camera is set for the amount of overlap desired on successive pictures, the shutter clicks at regular intervals in the plane's flight. Coincidentally with each click a little subsidiary camera records on the negative the time, temperature, altitude, bubble level reading and identification number. Then a vacuum, holding the film firmly flat during exposure, is released, and the roll is wound...
...however unlikely, that one might arise-would swiftly reduce India to the status of Ethiopia or one of the Central Asian so-called "Soviet Republics" now exploited from Moscow and made to jump at the commands of Stalin. Last week, with the initial stage of Provincial Autonomy set to click into action in 1937, the provisional date for full coming into effect of the Indian-Federation was set forward from 1940 to take place within a period which the Viceroy called "very short." Most observers of Indian affairs thought the date would be 1938, credited the Marquess of Linlithgow with...