Word: digit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Headed by captain Swisher Digit the team went thru a long drill which included scooping scotch and sodas out of highball glasses. Commenting on this, Coach Waters explained, "the scotch being heavier than water strengthens the finger muscles, and the depth of the glasses forces the boys to get their scoop strokes lower, an essential fundamental for high scoring...
...high score, and this outfit excepted, Harvard certainly has the best College hockey team in America. Yale his a distinctly mediocre six; the result of the clash should see George Ford, Austie Harding, Traf Hicks and their mates mopping up the ice to the tune of a two-digit score...
...Christmas Eve the three-race pari-mutuel total at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans was $107.20. The five-race total was $169.80, the seven-race $219. Taking, in order, the last digit in the dollar column in each total, the result...
...theatre as much as either they or Hollywood producers would like. Vacations are exceptions. On the theory that children like pictures about children, several such appear at Christmas, at Easter and in June. Released on schedule last week were two major productions involving the top single-digit stars of both sexes, RKO's Bobby Breen, 9, and Twentieth Century-Fox's Shirley Temple...
...Venus, draped in a diaphanous veil wagging a warning finger at a pug-nosed Cupid who has pulled a honeycomb from a tree, and suffered severe bee stings as a result. In the upper right hand corner Medievalist Cranach appended his moral: Dum Puer Alveola Furatur Mella Cupido, Furanti Digit um Cuspite Ficit Apis. Sic Etiam Nobis Brevis et Peritura Voluptas Quam Petimus Tristi Mixta Dolore Nocet.* Because of the retreat of many of the best early paintings, the show leans heavily on the mystical 19th Century Romantics that for a brief while made Munich an art centre almost equal...