Word: crow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once the physical barrier, the actual setting up of the "crow's nests," is overcome, he expects that opponents will cooperate wholeheartedly in this "laboratory test...
Despite the axe of wartime necessity which hangs over the head of intercollegiate sports, basketball coach Earl Brown will, in a few days, approach the H.A.A. with the proposal that Harvard ho the first Eastern university to experiment with the "crow's nest" system of officiating, a much discussed innovation from out of the West...
Certainly, he continued, the competency of the referees is beyond question, since most of them have spent years on basketball floors, either as coaches, players, or arbiters. The crow's-nest may be the solution. Test conducted in such big-time atmosphere as the national intercollegiate championships at Kansas City last year showed that it eliminates several possible sources of error...
...Crow law was refined last week in Natal, South Africa. Sentence of four months' imprisonment for a native woman was upheld by the Natal Supreme Court; but the court suspended sentence of her partner, an R.A.F. man. Their offense: illicit sexual intercourse. In South Africa, Natal is one of the provinces where intercourse between blacks and whites is taboo. The law has previously provided equal punishment for both...
When competent musicians are fired for playing two sour notes, there is no decent reason why a female vocalist should get by with singing like a crow. There are plenty of other reasons, but they count for little on a record. Every musician in the late Glenn Miller's band was expert, yet the firing rate was tremendous. Marion Hutton couldn't hit a note with a sledge-hammer, yet she sang with Miller for over four years. Few will deny that Marion was a highly desirable little morsel. She had, moreover, a prodigious personality that carried her over long...