Word: goale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yoga is an ingrown Hindu philosophical system whose object is fusing the "individual soul" with the "universal soul." Hindu yogins achieve that mystic goal after years of practice in emotional serenity and bodily control. The desired physical relaxation of yoga is achieved by means of contortions which "purify" the body. U. S. devotees of yoga are usually more interested in the philosophical and religious than the gymnastic aspects of the system. In India, on the other hand, the most extraverted yogin to appear in centuries, Swami Kuvalayananda, thinks so highly of the physical side of yoga that he has developed...
Tripping in hockey is an infraction of the rules that calls for a two-minute penalty. Faced with the choice of a two-minute penalty or a goal for his opponents, a shrewd hockey player will often chance the penalty, and this was exactly what Forward Herb Lewis of the Detroit Red Wings did last week when it looked as though Neil Colville of the New York Rangers had a clear shot at the Detroit goal. What happened in the next split second caused the liveliest controversy of the 1937 hockey season, probably settled its most important series...
Despite Lewis' interference, Colville got the puck away. It hit the broad stick of Detroit's Goalie Earl Robertson, bounced off onto the stick of Ranger Babe Pratt, who sent it into the Detroit net. To the crowd it looked like a goal. Referee Mickey Ion ruled that, since he had blown his whistle to stop play before the puck went in, the goal did not count. A goal for the Rangers would have tied the score, 1-all, in the second period of the deciding game of the final series for the Stanley Cup, hockey...
...series. Against the Red Wings, the Rangers stretched their string to five, lost the second game, won the third. Red Wing heroes of the last two games in addition to Lewis, onetime Red Wing captain, were Marty Barry, fuse of Detroit's famed "dynamite line," who scored the goal that won the fourth game, 1-to-0, and the first and third goals in the fifth; and Goalie Earl Robertson who, recruited from a minor-league team to replace Smith, got major credit for the Red Wings' two successive shutouts. Red Wings' reward: $1,400 for each...
Most versatile were a pair of Freshman hockey goal tenders, Vinton Freedley, Jr., and James A. Rousmaniere, who found enough time when they weren't on the ice to act as regular members of the 1940 squash team