Word: dasher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rolled umbrella. Last week a newshawk from the London Daily Express sought out the salesman from whom Mr. Chamberlain bought it. With characteristic British clarity, the salesman described it: "It's what one might call a Rolls-Royce of an umbrella, natty but quiet, solid but a light dasher. The sort of umbrella which becomes part...
...yard though. There was a house built over the spring on my father's farm in Pennsylvania. Downstairs was where the springwater ran through a big trough, and there was kept the milk "crocks," butter jars, etc. In that room, we churned the butter in a good old dasher churn. Don't you remember...
...first goal of the game was made after only 29 seconds of play, when Captain Crutchfield carried the puck the length of the ice, and passed to McGill, the hardest shooter in the Canadian circuit, who drove the rubber into the net from the dasher. The next three McGill goals came at the end of the first stanza, all within a period of 30 seconds. The Scarlet skaters rang up three more tallies in the second period, again through four and five man rushes...
...important decision, but it did not make much difference to curly-haired dasher Frank Wycoff of Southern California who was recently clocked over a Hundred in one-tenth of a second less than Tolan's time but whose record was too recent to be considered by the Federation last week. It did make a lot of difference, however, to swart George Simpson of Ohio State, called the Buckeye Comet, who also had turned in a time one-tenth of a second faster than Tolan's. When the Federation disallowed his record because he had made it with starting...