Word: cunningness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Statistics of Minnesota's seven straight victories over respectable opponents were staggering. The team had tallied a total of 236 points to its opponents' 38. It had made 122 first downs to its opponents' 37. A "power team" of the first magnitude, Minnesota had gained by rushes...
Jayhawker (by Sinclair Lewis & Lloyd Lewis; Henry Hammond. Inc., producer). Mr. Lloyd Lewis, the historian (Myths after Lincoln; Sherman, Fighting Prophet) and Mr. Sinclair Lewis, as resourceful a story-teller as the nation has produced, have concocted between them a Civil War episode which will be found in none of...
During the opening years of the twentieth century, British and German commercial interests secured a dominating position in the markets of South America. Supported by a cunning diplomatic policy, and seeing the vast possibilities of the virgin forests and rugged Andes, foreign capital began to develop these resources and to...
Bred on small gymnasium courts, Eastern teams play a cunning, fast game, usually with spontaneous maneuvers. The larger Western courts develop long passers, elaborate strategies. Midwest and Pacific Coast play a hard-hitting game. Referees there are free-&-easy in interpreting the rule against blocking, thus favoring the offense. In...
Why "Ulysses"? Every schoolboy knows the story of the Odyssey, epic-sequel to the Iliad, which recites the ten-year wanderings of the wily Odysseus (Latin-Ulysses) in his long-thwarted attempts to get home to his island kingdom after the siege of Troy. The Ulysses of the Odyssey is...