Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dartmouth and Army. The equalizing factor was that Harvard had beaten Princeton, and the only thing Harvard would rather do than beat Yale or Princeton is beat them both. It had not done so since 1915. Harvard drew first blood in the second quarter when Ray Daughters caught a forward pass and shook off two Yale tacklers, scored. In the next quarter Yale got moving, and the great Frank bounced off the Yale line to tie the score. But with seven minutes to play, Harvard's Francis Foley faked a smash at tackle and scuttled ten yards around...
...masters teach neophytes are the stem turn and the stem-Christiania, executed by braking with one ski, then edging the other over. Pure "Christies" (now learned after stemming is mastered) involve no stemming, but are accomplished by swinging the weight of the body while thrusting one ski forward. They are more graceful and faster than stem turns, or the other great ski maneuver-the Telemark...
...Originally the orthodox ski technique, Telemark turns (accomplished by sliding one ski far forward so that it guides the other into the turn) are practical only in deep snow, lost favor when the Christiania technique was developed...
...principal gaps to be filled are the center post left vacant by Captain Bill Gray and Leavitt White's forward position. White captained the hoopsters in his Junior year...
...guard of honor to one of the men responsible for the current gang warfare in Revere. When Gaeta was slain on Tuesday by East Boston gangsters who were trying to "muscle in" on his number pool and bookmaking monopoly, Revere Post No. 61 of the Legion stepped willingly forward to claim its glorious dead. On Wednesday Revere's flags, which twelve days before had honored America's 400,000 World War dead, flew at half-mast again in honor of their latest fallen "Buddy". All day long, on schools, libraries, and even the police station, the lowered flags taught puzzled...