Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Obstreperous journalists, undergraduate and metropolitan, might well undergo a certain amount of chest expansion at the news that one of their chance shots at improving the existent system of college athletics, has taken effect. Massachusetts Agricultural College is the proving ground: the goat is basketball, or possibly the captain of that sport, who is to give the idea of student coaching a workout this season. If the basketball teams from the Amherst college had been engaged in rolling up records for consecutive losses, this decision might be condoned as a last desperate measure before the oblivion of a dropped sport...
...capital speakeasies and bought drinks. They then contributed their experiences, with addresses and names deleted, to an exposé of Washington liquor conditions. Quickly summoned before the Grand Jury, they were asked to supply names, addresses, dates ? the specification for legal complaints. These they declined to give, on the ground that their admission to the speakeasies was on a confidential basis, that they were not dry agents, that to answer the Grand Jury's questions would violate their professional ethics...
...Marquis can write simply, but would rather write arabesques. When he rides his high horse, he is a long way off the ground. But sometimes he gets a startling phrase. In The Right Knife he describes a night club servant as "a pallid night-blooming waiter who was a part of the fauna of these regions, moving like a gray slug among their distempered flora...
...throughout its pages are scattered exhortations to the reader to disagree if he likes but to do some sort of thinking anyway. But there is little to disagree with in the criticism of the American short story with which the book ends. Mr. O'Brien is on familiar ground here and he succeeds in making a pretty concise exposition of what is wrong with those tales which so innocuously while away so many Thursday nights
Play starts from a kickoff, much as in our game. Tackling is the same, but more often on frozen ground, and as noted previously, there is no padding to break the fall. After the ball is down, eight men of each side lock arms, in a close formation or "pack", and shove directly against the opposing pack. The ball is thrown between the two groups by the referee, and the front line of each pack tries to hook the ball with the feet and kick it backward through the pack to a back who waits for it. Success in this...