Word: dynamos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pattern of his operation began to unfold. A cop dressed as a workman bumped into Rubino one day in a corridor near a dynamo room. "What are you doing here?" the peddler demanded. The 'cop mumbled: "I'm looking for the mess hall." Rubino growled: "Well, this isn't it, so get the hell out of here." The cop left but returned to spy later. Rubino met from three to seven customers a day, walked them around the hospital grounds to the powerhouse and left the buyer holding the dog's leash, while he scuttled inside...
...primary lesson she learned: "To them the earth is the source of life. The ground is like the dynamo of life; once you make contact with it your torso becomes an electric conductor." The role of the dancer: to "take the solidness of the earth and transform it into the spirit...
...plans for model regiments, was one of the first to suggest draftees (not adopted). Champing at freedom's bit, he scolded, "For God's sake, why do you dawdle in the Congress so strangely? Why do you not at once declare yourself a separate independent state?" A dynamo of energy, he drilled troops, advised Washington, arranged sound defenses for New York and Charleston...
Captain Cliff Harrison, first line center and team-leading scorer, draws special praise from Jeremiah: "a superb stickhandler and passer; skates like a human dynamo." Bill Dow and junior George Scully flank Harrison. The probable lineup: HARVARD DARTMOUTH Richardson or Corning g McMahon Wykoff ld Brower Bliss rd Grocutt Preston (C) lw Dow Kittredge c Harrison (C) Marshall rw Scully
Clair Bee is a 50-year-old dynamo with more jobs than most men tackle in a lifetime. In addition to being athletic director and assistant to the president of Long Island University (enrollment: 4,200), busy Bee writes a regular column for the New York Journal-American, manages a productive upstate New York farm, and also turns out magazine articles and books of fact & fiction for children (twelve published). These activities are just Bee's sidelines. His main job: basketball coach of L.I.U., the team with the best early-season record in the East...