Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time that he was the second thief to be arrested for pocket picking during the goal post crushes. Earlier in the year a bunglar at the trade missed his grasp for a lady's purse and found himself challenging here for her hat which she was carying in her hand at the time. The police took this offender...
...Alabama, Coach Wade proceeded for eight years not only to keep his promise to Kentucky (which has yet to win a game from Wallace Wade) but to make his teams equally famed and feared throughout the South. Drilling his men in every play down to the slightest movement of hand or foot, using a metronome to insure proper timing, sometimes rehearsing a play for two months before using it, crouching on the ground with any player to demonstrate exactly what he wants, Coach Wade is today esteemed by his colleagues one of the most patient of football teachers...
...high adventure" in running his old university, which he insisted on doing without pay. Soon he put Education on a business basis, balancing the budget by reducing expenses from $9,000,000 to $6,000,000 a year, projecting a 15-year money-raising program to replace the hand-to-mouth system of making the rounds of donors each year...
...published an article in which he referred to the tripleweight atom of hydrogen, generally called tritium, as "triterium." When this verbal goblin reached the eye of Dr. Kenneth Claude Bailey, professor of physical chemistry and authority on chemical etymology at University of Dublin, Dr. Bailey promptly took pen in hand and wrote a letter of protest which appeared in Nature last week. Excerpt: "The word 'deuterium' [accepted name for the double-weight hydrogen atom] is correctly formed from the Greek deuteros, 'second,' but the Greek for 'third' is tritos, not triteros. The name which...
...beginning of the book, and to a scattering of dramatic effect thereafter, so that even the impact of the earthquake itself is dissipated as the author patiently herds his characters one by one through the disaster. In the end, Author Bromfield metes out justice with the precise hand of a Sunday School superintendent distributing awards and censure. Only the faithful nurse, Miss MacDaid. is left holding...