Word: hooped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latter has been tire most conclusive element in fixing the date of the relics around the middle of the last century. The heard gear of the women, is at least as late as that of the forties while the absence of that of the forties while the absence of hoop skirts shows that the period could not have been much later...
...from notes of one kind to notes of another, seniors found a prancing group of quadrupeds dragging the Rochester (England) coach about the Yard, guided by an anachronism and the university's omnipresent sous-officer. At that time, as paint-smeared thespians climbed the steps of University Hall, and hoop skirts rolled into the Deanery, a volume of Pickwick Papers was heard groaning from its lair in Child Memorial...
Thus is the tenderfoot regaled in lightly populated sections of the continent, where roam the sidehill gouger, the minktum, tigermonk, high-behind,* lava bear, hoop snake, jointed snake, Peruvian whiffen-whoofen, banana fish, mile-or-more bird and other creatures of times and times ago The fauna of folklore is too elusive for collectors but sometimes an unidentifiable species strays into the newspapers. Two summers ago northern New Jersey was terrorized by a "devil" which sounded, from the skimpy descriptions brought in by terrified natives, like a carnivorous cousin of the cougar and the kangaroo. Last week...
Vermont beat the Aggies 36 to 10, and the Aggies topped Harvard 35 to 29. This, the only comparative score available, indicates the strength of the Vermont hoop...
...side-walls were parallel, and rose to a height of 25 feet. At the center of each of these side-walls, near the top, projected a stone ring some 14 inches in 11-ameter, fixed perpendicular rather than horizontally, as is the case with the modern basketball hoop. This arrangement made it necessary for the ball to be put cleanly through the ring from a point close to the wall, and eliminated any possibility of a rebound from the wall...