Word: hooping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eliot went right out in front, holding an 11-6 lead at the end of the first half. In the second half, they walked all over the helpless sailors. The Elephants' star performers were Vic Boullion who tallied 11 points, and Tener Eckleberry who dropped 6 points through the hoop...
...University of Kansas (where basketball was introduced by its mentor the late James A. Naismith) last week showed the hoop-eyed world something to marvel at. Its team, coached by Forrest C. ("Phog") Allen (Naismith's star pupil), who has won the Conference championship in 18 of the last 25 years, took on three teams in one evening, and trounced all three-the North American Bombers of Kansas City (45-to-36), the Rosecrans Field Flyers (71-to-22), Camp Crowder...
...near tough enough about requisitioning hoarded industrial scrap-unused machinery, etc., that low-prioritied industries feel is worth more to them than any kind of reasonable price bonus. It still hopes to get the added scrap through patriotism rather than pressure or price. Last week it launched the biggest hoop-la scrap-collection drive ever, through a new American Industries Salvage Committee. U.S. industry anted up $2,000,000 for paid advertising, sought to get 3,000,000 added tons from industry, more than 7,500,000 from households...
Both these period novels trick out huzzy-ish heroines and irresistible, blackguardly heroes in hoop skirts and heelstrapped pants. Both ballast the light fantastic course of love with a few tons of lore from the national past. Both are light heavyweights in length (593 and 652 pages, respectively). Both are fun to read. Drivin' Woman has already run to 150,000 copies (including the Literary Guild), brought its author $75,000 from M.G.M...
...Coach Frederick Richard ("Freddie") Lanoue of Georgia Tech got to thinking about the men who must jump from torpedoed ships into burning oil. He remembered an experience he once had when diving into a tank of water through a ring of burning gasoline. The gas had escaped from the hoop that contained it, and he had to come up for air through flames. Shooting up as high as he could, he grabbed a breath and sank back feet first, unscorched. Reasoned Coach Lanoue: Why not suggest the method to the Navy...