Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...venerable savants of the French Academy decided to admit the following Anglo-Saxon sporting terms into the French language: challenge, camping, bookmaker, cricket, Boy Scout, champion, bridge. The words canter, crack and crawl were rejected...
...stroke that Weismuller used was the six beat crawl, which carried him through the water at a tremendous rate of speed...
Yale had been playing for 12 and 9-10 yrs. on the slocum of don't tackle a man when he catches a punt lest you make him muff it. Those tactics worked for 12 yrs. like a wolf trying to crawl through a bathroom window but finely they turned around and bit them. Will Elihu Yale try those tactics again? Only as an adverb...
...before a bed of coals glowing in his small grate. Instead he rushes from the clattering dishes of some restaurant or lunch room to the bustle of competition or athletic field, and later after a pleasant evening elsewhere he returns to his room too tired to do anything but crawl into...
...well-known fact that if a worm is cut in half the two halves live on, and crawl off through the dust in opposite directions. The intelligence that there is an organization of German propagandists spread throughout the cities of this country for the purpose of furthering good relations between Germans and Irish brings up the question as to whether both halves of the German worm are not crawling towards the United States. The answer to the question becomes apparent when the leader of such an organization attempts, as did von Mach, to use the American Legion as a connecting...