Word: flicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today, Episcopal High School is no longer a high school (its six-year course embraces prep school and junior college), and among its students are many boys from the North. But it keeps its old flavor. Its principal, Archibald Robinson ("Flick") Hoxton, 63, was born on the campus, the son of an associate principal of the school. Short, brown-and-silver-haired Flick Hoxton, a great Southern school athlete, got his nickname either from his habit of lying in bed and spitting out the window or from his extraordinary quickness of hand. Standing at the blackboard before his class...
...seven dwarf motors. Initial cost of $175,000 seemed staggering beside the $25,000 spent on the Senate trolley, but there were compensations. Annual appropriation for operating the Senate subway, which requires two motormen, is $2,000, while running cost for the moving sidewalk would be only for the flick of a switch, morning and night, and for the electricity. Furthermore, each trip on the shuttle would save a Representative one minute-one and a half if he helped himself along by walking. Total saving to 435 Congressmen in an average of three round trips per day: 3.915 member-minutes...
...ends will be Johnny Miller, wearing Kelley's number 19, and Flick Hoxton, both Juniors. Miller, ineligible last year, starred as a Freshman fullback two years ago. His kicking is only slightly below Colwell's. The tackles will be Bill John and Bill Platt, also Juniors and both lettermen. When Yale uses a five man line Platt backs it up with Gallagher and Colwell...
Outside the machine are 17 switches and three transformers, which are really dimmers. In the midst of the switches and numerous wires and plugs stands Mr. Scott. A flick of his fingers makes the box a livid red, a brilliant blue, a glaring yellow, an emerald green. He can turn on the three primary colors (remember your physics?) at once and produce nothing but white light with the combination...
...transshipment of his okapi (named, by now, Congo) to a U. S.-bound vessel. During the ten-day voyage, Congo was a source of continual delight. Dr. Blair observed with satisfaction that his tongue was so long (14 in.) that he used it to wash out his ears and flick flies from his withers. Congo immediately took to Dr. Blair, who three times a day fed him bananas, cabbages, carrots, sweet potatoes, condensed milk. Except for three rough days, Congo took his food with relish. Normally okapis are browsers. They eat tender shoots from the tops of shrubs and trees...